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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.
  1. Blanche Ames
  2. Susan B. Anthony (33)
  3. Alice Stone Blackwell (10)
  4. Harriot Stanton Blatch (5)
  5. Lucy Burns (4)
  6. Carrie Chapman Catt (20)
  7. Millicent Garrett Fawcett (7)
  8. Mary Livermore
  9. Alice Duer Miller (43)
  10. Pankhursts (13)
  11. Alice Paul (7)
  12. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (30)
  13. Lucy Stone (11)

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 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.

Lucretia Mott Pictures

Pictures of Lucretia Mott, Quaker anti-slavery activist and women's rights activist.

Anna Howard Shaw Quotes

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

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.

Alice Duer Miller

Alice Duer Miller: profile of Alice Duer Miller, a journalist and writer known for satirical poems advocating woman suffrage.

Frederick Douglass Quotes on Women's Rights

Quotes by Frederick Douglass - part of an extensive collection of quotations about women.

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