Caroline Severance
Also active in the Woman's Club movement, Caroline Severence was associated with Lucy Stone's wing of the movement after the Civil War. Severence was a key figure in the California woman suffrage campaign of 1911.Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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With Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the best-known figure through most of the international and American suffrage movement. Of the partnership, Stanton was more the strategist and theorist.
Lucy Stone
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A key 19th century suffrage figure as well as abolitionist, Lucy Stone broke with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony after the Civil War over the issue of black male suffrage; her husband Henry Blackwell was a co-worker for women's suffrage. Lucy Stone was considered a suffrage radical in her youth, a conservative in her older years.
M. Carey Thomas
M. Carey Thomas is considered a pioneer in women's education, for her commitment and work in building Bryn Mawr as an institution of excellence in learning, as well as for her very life which served as a model for other women. She worked on suffrage with the National American Woman Suffrage Association.Sojourner Truth
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Known more for her speaking against slavery, Sojourner Truth also spoke for women's rights.
Harriet Tubman
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Underground Railroad conductor and Civil War soldier and spy, Harriet Tubman also spoke for women's suffrage.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett, known for her work against lynching, also worked to win for the vote for women.
