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Vernon atded the 1912 convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, where she was an usher.She was the first paid organizer that Alice Paul recruited. Vernon joined Lucy Burns and Paul as part of NAWSA's Congressional Committee to organize the Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 that was to occur the following March where it would coincide with the inauguration of Woodrow Wils
Elisabeth Freeman (September 12, 1876 – February 27, 1942) was a British-born American suffragist and civil rights activist, best known for her investigative report for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on the May 1916 spectacle lynching of Jesse Washington in Waco, Texas, known as the "Waco Horror".
Mary Hutcheson Page (1860–1940) – Member of the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and the National Executive Committee of the Congressional Union for Women Suffrage. 1910 President of the National Woman Suffrage Association. [100]
Fusae Ichikawa (1893–1981) – politician who founded the nation's first women's suffrage organization: the Women's Suffrage League of Japan, president of the New Japan Women's League; Shidzue Katō (1897–2001) – politician; Oku Mumeo (1895–1997) – co-founder of the New Women's Association who later served three terms in Japan's ...
President Trump will pardon Susan B. Anthony -- but Crystal Mason remains behind bars. President Trump said Tuesday he has issued a pardon for Anthony, a leader in the women’s suffrage movement ...
Christabel Pankhurst set up a new weekly WSPU newspaper at this time named The Suffragette. [19] The newspaper began devoting double-page spreads to reporting the bomb and arson attacks that were now regularly occurring around the country. [20] [21] This became the method by which the organisation claimed responsibility for each attack. [22]
The 35-year-old playwright stars in a musical about women's fight for the vote.
Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote.