This is a list of African American suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in United States.
Groups
- Afro-American Protective Association (Iowa).[1]
- Alpha Suffrage Club (Illinois).[2]
- American Woman Suffrage Association.[3]
- Colored Women's Equal Suffrage Club (Oregon).[4]
- Colored Women's Independent Political League (Ohio).[5]
- Colored Women's Suffrage Club of New York.[6]
- Colored Women's Suffrage Club (Maryland).[7]
- Des Moines League of Colored Women Voters, formed in 1912 (Iowa).[8]
- El Paso Negro Woman's Civic and Enfranchisement League, started in 1918 (Texas).[9]
- Federated Colored Women's Clubs.[10]
- Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.[11]
- Los Angeles Forum of Colored Women.[12]
- National Association of Colored Women's Clubs.[3]
- New Jersey State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (NJSFCWC).[13]
- Philadelphia Suffrage Association, founded in 1866 with interracial membership.[3]
- Progressive Women's Suffrage Club (Baltimore, Maryland), (also known as the Colored Women's Suffrage Club).[14]
- Tuskegee Women's Club (Alabama).[15]
Suffragists
Nannie Helen Burroughs (middle and back row) in 1909.
A
- Christia Adair (Texas).[16]
- Osceola Macarthy Adams.[17]
- Sadie Lewis Adams (Illinois).[18]
- Teresa Adams (Iowa).[19]
- Winona Cargile Alexander.[20]
- Susan E. Allen (Illinois).[21]
- Eliza Anderson.[22]
- Naomi Anderson.[23]
- Libbie C. Anthony (Missouri).[24]
- Blanche Armwood (Florida).[25]
B
- Alice Gertrude Baldwin (Delaware).[26]
- Maria Louise Baldwin (Massachusetts).[27]
- Janie Porter Barrett (Virginia).[23]
- Laura Beasley (Illinois).[28]
- Mary Beatty (Mississippi and Oregon).[29]
- Ida M. Bowman Becks.[30]
- Mae E. Profitt Bentley (Rhode Island).[31]
- Ella G. Berry (Illinois).[32]
- Mary V. Berry (Washington, D.C.).[33]
- Kizziah J. Bills (Illinois).[34]
- Ethel Cuff Black.[35]
- Annie Walker Blackwell (Pennsylvania).[36]
- Bonnie Thomas Bogle (Oregon).[4]
- Rosa Dixon Bowser (Virginia).[37]
- Rose Talliaferro Bradic (Rhode Island).[38]
- Minnie L. Bradley (Connecticut).[39]
- Louise Beatrice Braxton (Maryland).[40]
- Hallie Quinn Brown (Ohio).[41]
- Ida E. Duckett Brown (New Jersey).[13]
- Solomon G. Brown.[42]
- Josephine Beall Willson Bruce.[23]
- Eva Carter Buckner (California).[12]
- Mary E. Cary Burrell (New Jersey).[43]
- Nannie Helen Burroughs.[44]
- Louisa C. Hatton Crawford Butler (Washington, D.C.).[45]
- Marian D. Butler (Washington, D.C.).[46]
C
- Bertha Pitts Campbell.[47]
- Jeannette Carter (Washington, D.C.).[48]
- Augusta Theodosia Lewis Chissell (Maryland).[14]
- Helen E. Christian (New York).[6]
- Mary C. Clarke (Illinois).[49]
- Carrie Williams Clifford (Ohio).[50]
- Mattie E. Coleman (Tennessee).[51]
- Maude B. Deering Coleman (Washington, Pennsylvania).[52]
- Coralie Franklin Cook.[23]
- Helen Appo Cook (Washington, D.C.).[53]
- Anna J. Cooper.[23]
- Fannie Wilson Cooper (Iowa).[54]
- Henrietta Green Crawford (New Jersey).[55]
- Ida R. Cummings (Maryland).[7]
- Ella Cunningham (New York).[56]
- Helen M. Curtis (New York).[57]
D
- Mamie Dillard (Kansas).[23]
- Julia Dorsey.[42]
- Frederick Douglass.[44]
- Virginia Hewlett Douglass.[42]
E
- Mary E. Eato (New York).[58]
- Elizabeth Piper Ensley.[59]
F
- Charlotte Vandine Forten.[23]
- Margaretta Forten (Pennsylvania).[3]
G
H
- Victoria Clay Haley (Missouri).[10]
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.[60]
- Lugenia Burns Hope (Georgia).[3]
J
- Mary E. Jackson (Rhode Island).[23]
- Anna Louise James (Connecticut).[39]
- Verina Morton Jones (New York).[23][58]
L
- Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin.[60]
- Lucy Craft Laney (Georgia).[23]
- Adella Hunt Logan (Alabama).[15]
M
- Victoria Earle Matthews (New York).[23]
- Mary A. McCurdy (Indiana).[23]
- Rosa Moorman (Ohio).[61]
- Gertrude Bustill Mossell (Pennsylvania).[3]
P
- Ora Brown Stokes Perry (Virginia).[62][61]
- Lucy Proffitt (Rhode Island).[63]
- Harriet Forten Purvis (Pennsylvania).[3]
- Harriet Purvis Jr. (Pennsylvania).[23]
R
- Sarah Parker Remond.[23]
- Charlotte Rollin (South Carolina).[3]
- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (Massachusetts).[3]
S
- Maude Sampson (Texas).[64]
- Mary Townsend Seymour (Connecticut).[39]
- Mary Ann Shadd.[60]
- Lydia C. Smith (New York).[58]
- Rosetta Douglass Sprague.[42]
T
- Mary Burnett Talbert (New York).[44]
- Mary Church Terrell.[44]
- Sojourner Truth.[3]
- Harriet Tubman.[65]
W
- Margaret Murray Washington (Alabama).[15]
- Ida B. Wells (Illinois).[66]
- Fannie Barrier Williams.[23]
Y
- Estelle Hall Young (Maryland).[7]
See also
References
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- ↑ Sorenson 2004, p. 9.
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- 1 2 Lemen, Emily. "Biographical Sketch of Helen E. Christian, 1879-1930". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
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- 1 2 Shea, Neil (2017). "Biographical Sketch of Victoria Clay Haley". Biographical Database of Black Women Suffragists – via Alexander Street.
- ↑ "Toward A Universal Suffrage: Profiles of Courage". Central Iowa Community Museum. Retrieved 2021-09-01.
- 1 2 Smith, Sode. "Biographical Sketch of Eva Carter Buckner". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
- 1 2 Adams, Betty Livingston. "Biographical Sketch of Ida E. Duckett Brown". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
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- 1 2 3 4 Carrillo, Karen Juanita (2022-10-20). "Plaque unveiled for African American suffragists in Brooklyn". New York Amsterdam News. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
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- 1 2 3 "Five You Should Know: African American Suffragists". National Museum of African American History and Culture. Retrieved 2023-03-22.
- 1 2 Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn (1998). African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 103. ISBN 978-0-253-21176-7.
- ↑ McDaid, Jennifer Davis (October 26, 2018). "Woman Suffrage in Virginia". Encyclopedia Virginia, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities.
- ↑ Ramos, Emily; Szeneitas, Sophia. "Biographical Sketch of Lucy Proffitt". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ↑ "Letters regarding African American suffrage organization". Bullock Texas State History Museum. Retrieved 2020-08-12.
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Sources
- Boyd, Katherine (Spring 2018). Partial Suffrage in Iowa: 1894 (Thesis). University of Iowa.
- Davis, Elizabeth Lindsay (1922). The Story of the Illinois Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. Chicago – via Hathi Trust.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Sorenson, Mark W. (2004). "Ahead of Their Time: A Brief History of Suffrage in Illinois". Illinois Heritage. Illinois State Historical Society. 7 (6) – via Illinois Periodicals Online.
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