List of Alabama suffragists
This is a list of Alabama suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Alabama.
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Groups
[edit]- Alabama Equal Suffrage Association (AESA), formed in 1912[1]
- Alabama Woman Suffrage Organization (AWSO), created in 1893[2]
- Coal City Equal Suffrage Association[3]
- Equal Suffrage League of Birmingham, formed in 1911, later called the Equal Suffrage Association of Birmingham[1][4]
- Huntsville Equal Suffrage Association, created in 1912[5]
- Huntsville League for Woman Suffrage, formed in 1894[5]
- National Junior Suffrage Corps[6]
- Selma Suffrage Association, created on March 29, 1910[1][4]
- Selma Suffragette Association[7]
- Tuskegee Women's Club[8]
Suffragists
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- Alice Baldridge (Huntsville)[5]
- Lillian Roden Bowron (Birmingham)[1]
- Virginia Tunstall Clay-Clopton[9]
- James Drake (Huntsville)[10]
- Priscilla Holmes Drake (Huntsville)[10]
- Scottie McKenzie Frasier (Dothan)[11]
- Emera Frances Griffin (Huntsville)[9][12]
- Ellen Hildreth (Decatur)[9]
- Frances John Hobbs (Selma)[13]
- Ellelee Chapman Humes (Huntsville)[5]
- Bossie O'Brien Hundley (Huntsville)[1]
- Pattie Ruffner Jacobs[1]
- Helen Keller (Tuscumbia)[12]
- Indiana Little (Birmingham).[14]
- Adella Hunt Logan (Tuskegee)[4]
- Mary Parke London (Birmingham)[15]
- Eugenie Marks (Mobile)[16]
- Elizabeth "Bessie" Moore (Coal City)[3]
- Mary Munson (Vinemont)[16]
- Nellie Kimball Murdock (Birmingham)[17]
- Carrie McCord Parke (Selma)[18]
- Mary Partridge (Selma)[1]
- Sally B. Powell (Montgomery)[16]
- Mary Howard Raiford (Selma)[4]
- Annie Buel Drake Robertson[16]
- Pearl Still (Pell City)[16]
- Alberta Chapman Taylor (Huntsville)[9][5]
- Julia S. Tutwiler[1]
- Margaret Murray Washington (Tuskegee)[12]
- Mary Amelia John Watson (Selma)[4]
- Hattie Hooker Wilkins (Selma)[19]
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
[edit]- Benjamin Craig (Selma)[18]
- Sam Will John[20]
Publications
[edit]- Alabama Suffrage Bulletin, published by the Alabama Equal Suffrage Association starting in October 1915[21]
- The Progressive Woman, created in 1913 and edited by Frances Griffin and Juliet Cook Olin[22]
Suffragists who campaigned in Alabama
[edit]- Jane Addams.[4]
- Susan B. Anthony.[23]
- Belle Bennett.[17]
- Julia Oates Randall Bonelli.[24]
- Carrie Chapman Catt.[23]
- Margaret Foley.[25]
- Jean Gordon.[17]
- Anna Howard Shaw[26]
Anti-suffragists
[edit]Groups
[edit]- Alabama Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, created in 1916[27]
- Alabama Woman's Anti-Ratification League (AWARL)[28]
- Southern Women's Anti-ratification League[27]
People
[edit]See also
[edit]- Timeline of women's suffrage in Alabama
- Women's suffrage in Alabama
- Women's suffrage in states of the United States
- Women's suffrage in the United States
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h Rogers & Ward 2018, p. 381.
- ^ "Alabama Suffragists". UA Libraries Digital Exhibits. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
- ^ a b "On this day in Alabama history: Women's rights leader dies". Alabama NewsCenter. 2019-07-08. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
- ^ a b c d e f Burnes 2020, p. 35.
- ^ a b c d e Worthy, Shalis. "The 19th Amendment and Women's Suffrage: Women's Suffrage in Huntsville". Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
- ^ "Junior Suffrage Corps Organized Recently". Birmingham Post-Herald. 1915-04-18. p. 26. Retrieved 2023-01-07 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Burnes 2020, p. 33.
- ^ Worthy, Shalis. "The 19th Amendment and Women's Suffrage: Suffrage & Race in Alabama". Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
- ^ a b c d Rogers & Ward 2018, p. 380.
- ^ a b Worthy, Shalis. "The 19th Amendment and Women's Suffrage: Women's Suffrage in Alabama". Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
- ^ Phillips, Greg; Olliff, Marty (16 December 2020). "It Came from the Archives: Dothan's suffragist, Scottie McKenzie Frasier". Troy Today. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
- ^ a b c "Suffragists in Alabama". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
- ^ Burnes 2020, p. 32-33.
- ^ Royster, Briana Adline (2019). "Biographical Sketch of Indiana T. Little". search.alexanderstreet.com. Alexander Street. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 6.
- ^ a b c d e Harper 1922, p. 3.
- ^ a b c Thomas 1992, p. 136.
- ^ a b Burnes 2020, p. 34.
- ^ Burnes, Valerie Pope. "Alabama Equal Suffrage Association". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
- ^ Burnes 2020, p. 36.
- ^ "Alabama Suffrage Bulletin, newsletter of the Alabama Equal Suffrage Association". Alabama Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
- ^ "First Volume of The Progressive Woman, a Weekly Magazine Published in Montgomery, Alabama". Alabama Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
- ^ a b Anthony 1902, p. 465.
- ^ Nolan, Pamela (26 August 2020). "CELEBRATING THE 19TH AMENDMENT The path to vote: The Alabama Story, Part 4". The Greenville Standard. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
- ^ "Foley, Margaret, 1875-1957. Papers of Margaret Foley, 1847-1968". Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ Burnes, Valerie Pope. "Alabama Equal Suffrage Association". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
- ^ a b c Rogers & Ward 2018, p. 382.
- ^ "The Alabama Story". Alabama Women's Suffrage Centennial. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
- ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 8.
Sources
[edit]- Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
- Burnes, Valerie Pope (January 2020). "Will Alabama Women Vote?: The Women's Suffrage Movement in Alabama from 1890-1920". Alabama Review. 73 (1): 28–39. doi:10.1353/ala.2020.0011. S2CID 219811342 – via Project MUSE.
- Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
- Rogers, William Warren; Ward, Robert David (2018). "Women in Alabama from 1865 to 1920". Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (Bicentennial ed.). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. pp. 376–391. ISBN 9780817391669 – via Project MUSE.
- Thomas, Mary Martha (1992). The New Woman in Alabama: Social Reforms and Suffrage, 1890-1920. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 9780817360108.