This is a list of Rhode Island suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Rhode Island.
Groups
Congressional Union for Women's Suffrage at their summer headquarters in Newport, Rhode Island, c. 1914
- Bristol Equal Suffrage League.[1]
- College Equal Suffrage League, Rhode Island group formed in 1907.[2][3]
- Congressional Union of Providence, Rhode Island, created in 1916.[4]
- Jamestown Equal Suffrage League.[5]
- Newport County Woman Suffrage League, founded in 1908.[6][7]
- Providence Woman Suffrage Party.[3]
- Rhode Island Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1915.[3]
- Rhode Island Women's Suffrage Association, created in 1868.[8]
- Rhode Island Women's Suffrage Party, created in 1913.[3]
- Rhode Island Union of Colored Women's Clubs, created in 1903.[2][9]
- Woman's Newport League.[2]
- Women's Political Equality League of Providence.[4]
Suffragists
- Esther H. Abelson (Pawtucket).[1]
- Sara Algeo.[2]
- Agnes Bacon (Providence).[1]
- Mary Rathbone Kelly Ballou (Providence and Portsmouth).[10]
- Alva Belmont (Newport).[11]
- Mae E. Profitt Bentley (Providence).[12]
- Ellen M. Bolles.[13]
- Rose Talliaferro Bradic (Providence).[14]
- Margaret M. Campbell.[15]
- Elizabeth Buffum Chace (Providence).[8]
- Elizabeth Kittridge Churchill.[15]
- Paulina Wright Davis (Providence).[8]
- Ardelia C. Dewing.[16]
- Mary H. Dickerson (Newport).[2]
- Sarah E. Doyle.[17]
- Maud Howe Elliot (Newport).[4]
- Jeanette S. French.[18]
- Hannah E. Greene (Providence).[2]
- Annie M. Griffin.[13]
- Frederick A. Hinckley (Providence).[13]
- Bertha Higgins (Providence).[2]
- Julia Ward Howe (Portsmouth).[4]
- Mary E. Jackson (Providence).[2]
- Maria Albertina Kindberg (Providence).[4]
- Maria Ingeborg Kindstedt (Providence).[4]
- Sophia Little.[19]
- Deborah Knox Livingston.[1]
- Clara Brownell May Miller (Newport).[6]
- Martha H. Mowry (Providence).
- Mabel E. Orgelman (Bristol).[1]
- Fanny Purdy Palmer (Providence)[20]
- Annie Peck (Providence).[19]
- Rhoda Anna Fairbanks Peckham.[13]
- Lucy Proffitt.[21]
- Charlotte B. Wilbour.[22]
- Anna Garlin Spencer (Providence).[2]
- Rowena Peck Barnes Tingley.[22]
- Camillo von Klenze.[23]
- Frances H. Whipple (Providence).[19]
- Sarah Helen Whitman (Providence).[17]
- Lillie Chace Wyman (Valley Falls).[4]
- Elizabeth Upham Yates.[24]
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
- Robert Livingston Beeckman.[17]
- Clark Burdick (Newport).[25]
- Edward L. Freeman.[17]
- Joseph H. Gainer (Providence).[26]
- Daniel L. D. Granger (Providence).[27]
- Richard W. Jennings.[17]
- Henry B. Kane (Narragansett).[25]
- Walter R. Stiness.[28]
Suffragists campaigning in Rhode Island
- Susan B. Anthony.[2]
- Henry B. Blackwell.[29]
- Carrie Chapman Catt.[30]
- Adelaide A. Claifin.[29]
- James Henry Darlington.[25]
- Frederick Douglass.[2]
- Mary F. Eastman.[31]
- William Lloyd Garrison.[31]
- Mary Johnston.[32]
- Louise Hall.[33]
- Henry S. Nash.[24]
- Cora Scott Pond.[29]
- Anna Howard Shaw.[34]
- Doris Stevens.[35]
- Lucy Stone.[31]
- Zerelda G. Wallace.[29]
Places
Publications
Anti-suffragists
Groups
- Rhode Island Association in Opposition to Woman Suffrage.[38]
Individuals
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "Centennial & Suffrage History". MyLO. 2020-06-17. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Stevens, Elizabeth C. "The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in Rhode Island". EnCompass. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- 1 2 3 4 Manning, Lucinda (2001). "Records of the League of Women Voters of Rhode Island". Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Division. revised by Kim Nusco. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 DeSimone, Russell (11 January 2020). "Rhode Island's Two Unheralded Suffragists". Small State Big History. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ↑ Gibbs, Ryan (13 August 2020). "Getty event to celebrate centennial of women's suffrage". Jamestown Press. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- 1 2 Young, Bailey. "Biographical Sketch of Clara Brownell May (Mrs. Oscar) Miller". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
- ↑ Harper 1922, p. 577.
- 1 2 3 "Elizabeth Buffum Chace, Inducted 2002". Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ↑ "Died". The New York Age. 1914-07-09. p. 8. Retrieved 2020-10-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Mary Ballou: "A Rhode Island Suffrage Pioneer"". Portsmouth History Notes. 2019-12-13. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
- 1 2 "When Gilded Suffragists Reached Out to Black Activists". Johanna Neuman. 2018-01-12. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ↑ Truppi, Lily; Cottineau, Sacha. "Biographical Sketch of Mae E. Proffitt Bentley". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- 1 2 3 4 Anthony & Harper 1902, p. 908.
- ↑ Battye, Jilian; Riordan, Katherine. "Biographical Sketch of Rose Talliaferro Bradic". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- 1 2 Anthony & Harper 1902, p. 909.
- ↑ Anthony & Harper 1902, p. 907-908.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 DeSimone, Russell (3 July 2020). "Rhode Island's Long Quest for Women's Suffrage". Small State Big History. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ↑ Anthony & Harper 1902, p. 912.
- 1 2 3 DeSimone, Russell J. (1 March 2015). "Celebrating Women's History Month: 10 who helped shape the Ocean State". Providence Journal. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ↑ Anthony & Harper 1902, p. 918.
- ↑ Ramos, Emily; Szeneitas, Sophia. "Biographical Sketch of Lucy Proffitt". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- 1 2 Harper 1922, p. 566.
- ↑ Miller, Elisa. "Biographical Sketch of Louise Hall". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
- 1 2 Harper 1922, p. 567.
- 1 2 3 "Suffrage Mass Meeting". Newport Mercury. 1917-08-03. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Harper 1922, p. 571.
- ↑ Harper 1922, p. 565-566.
- 1 2 3 Harper 1922, p. 574.
- 1 2 3 4 Anthony & Harper 1902, p. 910.
- ↑ Harper 1922, p. 570.
- 1 2 3 Anthony & Harper 1902, p. 907.
- ↑ Harper 1922, p. 568.
- ↑ "Plan Greeting for Liberty Bell Party". New Castle Herald. 1915-06-30. p. 10. Retrieved 2021-03-05 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Bort, Ina (2017-04-21). "Suffrage on the Menu: The Marble House Conferences of 1909 and 1914". Behind The Scenes: New-York Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
- ↑ "For Suffrage Work". Newport Daily News. 1914-06-26. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ "Rhode Island and the 19th Amendment". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ↑ DeSimone, Russell (31 March 2018). "Rhode Island Women Enter 19th Century Politics". Small State Big History. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ↑ "Opposed to Suffrage". Newport Daily News. 1912-10-11. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- 1 2 "Suffrage Timeline". Lippit House Project. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
Sources
- Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (1902). The History of Woman Suffrage. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
- Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
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