Suffragists - Women Who Worked for the Vote

Women who worked for the vote for women, whether called woman suffragists, women's suffrage advocates, or suffragettes. Includes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt -- but also some lesser-known women like Lucy Stone and Lucy Burns.

Top 10 Women's Suffrage Activists
How many of these women do you know? If you're new to studying women's suffrage, you can start with these biographies. If you're not new, see how many of these women you know -- and follow up on those you don't know.

Women's Suffrage Biographies
Included here: key biographies of women who worked for women's right to vote. Note: while the media, especially in Britain, called many of these women suffragettes , the more correct term historically is suffragists. And while the struggle for the right of women to vote is

Women's Suffrage Activists - Pictures
Pictures of key women who helped to win the vote.

Myra Bradwell
Biography of Myra Bradwell, legal pioneer and women's rights activist who was the subject of the Blackwell v. Illinois Supreme Court case.

Laura Clay
Southern women's suffrage advocate Laura Clay also worked for women's property rights, women's equality in the Episcopal church, and against Prohibition. She made history with her Democratic Party involvement.

Abigail Scott Duniway
Abigail Scott Duniway biography - profile of Abigail Scott Duniway, Western pioneer and women's rights advocate.

Alice Duer Miller
Profile of Alice Duer Miller, a journalist and writer known for satirical poems advocating woman suffrage. Includes links to some of her writings.

Virginia Minor
Virginia Minor's name was on one of the landmark Supreme Court decisions: read about that and other contributions to women's rights.

Anna Howard Shaw Quotes
Quotations from Anna Howard Shaw, a physician and minister who was also a prominent woman suffrage activist.

Victoria Woodhull
Victoria Woodhull biography - a biography of Victoria Woodhull, spiritualist, fortune-teller, stockbroker, newspaper editor and feminist.

Maud Younger
Maud Younger was a key women's suffrage activist in the last phase before winning the vote in 1920. She was also a union organizer.

Frederick Douglass Quotes on Women's Rights
Quotes by Frederick Douglass - part of an extensive collection of quotations about women.

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