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Elizabeth Cady Stanton Biography With Susan B. Anthony, one of the best-known in the international and American suffrage movement. Of the partnership, Stanton was more the strategist and theorist. |
Susan B. Anthony Biography With Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the best-known in the international and American suffrage movement. Of the partnership, Anthony was more the public speaker and activist. |
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Alice Paul Biography A more radical "suffragette" in the later stages of the suffrage movement, Paul was influenced by British suffrage techniques. She headed the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage and the National Woman's Party. |
Carrie Chapman Catt Biography Alice Paul's counterpart at the National American Woman Suffrage Association during the latter years of the suffrage movement, Catt's more traditional political organizing was also important to the victory. She went on to found the League of Women Voters. |
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Lucy Stone
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A key 19th century suffrage figure, she broke with Stanton and Anthony after the Civil War over racial issues; her husband Henry Blackwell was a co-worker for suffrage. Lucy Stone was considered a suffrage radical in her youth, a conservative in her older years. |
Julia Ward Howe Biography
Allied with Lucy Stone after the Civil War in the American Woman Suffrage Association, Julia Ward Howe is remembered more for her abolitionism, writing the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and her peace activism than her suffrage work. |
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Sojourner Truth Biography Known more for her speaking against slavery, Sojourner Truth also spoke for women's rights. |
Harriet Tubman Biography
Underground railroad conductor and Civil War figure, Tubman also spoke for women's suffrage. |
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Lucretia Mott Biography A Hicksite Quaker, she worked for abolition of slavery and for women's rights. With Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she helped found the suffrage movement by helping to bring together the 1848 women's rights convention in Seneca Falls. |
Jane Addams Biography Jane Addams' major contribution to history is in the settlement house movement and the beginnings of social work, but she also worked on the topic of woman suffrage. |
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Helen Kendrick Johnson Biography She, with her husband, worked against woman suffrage as part of the anti-suffrage movement. Her Woman and the Republic is a well-reasoned, intellectual anti-suffrage argument. |
Jeannette Rankin Biography
First American woman elected to Congress, she was also a peace activist, reformer and suffragist. |
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Alice Duer Miller Biography A teacher and writer, she published as a collection her satire poems Are Women People? which were originally published in the New York Tribune. |
M. Carey Thomas Biography Known mostly to history as the president of women's college, Bryn Mawr, she also worked for suffrage and with the Women's Christian Temperance Union. |
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Isabella Beecher Hooker Biography Her support of the suffrage movement made Olympia Brown's speaking tours possible, among her many involvements. She was a half-sister of author Harriet Beecher Stowe. |
Olympia Brown Biography One of the earliest women ordained as a minister, she was also a popular and effective speaker for the woman suffrage movement, and eventually retired form minister to attend to her suffrage work. |
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Maud Younger Biography Active in the latter stages of the women's suffrage campaigns, she worked with the militant wing with Alice Paul. Her cross-country automobile tour for suffrage was a key event of the early 20th century movement. |
Caroline Severence Biography Active in the Woman's Club movement, Caroline Severence was associated with the Lucy Stone wing of the movement after the Civil War. Severence was a key figure in the California woman suffrage campaign of 1911. |
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More Biographies - This Site More biographies of notable women on this site. |
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Women Resources on the Net for notable women about whom I have not (yet) written biographies. |
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Woman Suffrage Multi-level index of suffrage articles on this site and on the Net. |
Biographies: Collections Links to collections of biographies on the Net. You may want to check first on subject pages or with a search on this site. |
