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This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize– their goals.
Louise Eates (1877–1944) – suffragette, chair of Kensington Women's Social and Political Union and a women's education activist; Maude Edwards (fl. 1914) – suffragette who was force-fed in prison despite having a heart condition; Norah Elam (1878–1961) – prominent member of the WSPU; imprisoned three times
Jeannette Rankin (1880–1973) – first U.S. female member of Congress (R) Montana. Rankin opened congressional debate on a Constitutional amendment granting universal suffrage to women, and voted for the resolution in 1919, which would become the 19th Amendment. [105] Rebecca Hourwich Reyher (1897–1987) – author and lecturer. [106] [107]
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Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.
The listings were drawn from a database of women arrested at a White House protest, African-American women who had published writing on the topic of suffrage, names unearthed through original research during the course of the first biographical investigations, and 2,700 names drawn from volume six of The History of Woman Suffrage (1922). [5]
Lilian Locke (1869–1950) – honorary secretary of the United Council for State Suffrage, political organiser, trade unionist and labor activist [2] Louisa Lawson (1848–1920) – poet, writer, publisher, and feminist; Maria Elizabeth Kirk (1855–1928) Temperance in UK and suffrage in Australia.
[2] [3] In 1906, a reporter writing in the Daily Mail coined the term suffragette for the WSPU, derived from suffragist α (any person advocating for voting rights), in order to belittle the women advocating women's suffrage. [4] The militants embraced the new name, even adopting it for use as the title of the newspaper published by the WSPU. [4]