List of Alabama suffragists explained

This is a list of Alabama suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Alabama.

Groups

• Alabama Equal Suffrage Association (AESA), formed in 1912
• Alabama Woman Suffrage Organization (AWSO), created in 1893^[1]
• Coal City Equal Suffrage Association^[2]
• Equal Suffrage League of Birmingham, formed in 1911, later called the Equal Suffrage Association of Birmingham
• Huntsville Equal Suffrage Association, created in 1912
• Huntsville League for Woman Suffrage, formed in 1894^[3]
• National Junior Suffrage Corps^[4]
• Selma Suffrage Association, created on March 29, 1910
• Selma Suffragette Association
• Tuskegee Women's Club^[5]

Suffragists

• Alice Baldridge (Huntsville)
• Lillian Roden Bowron (Birmingham)
• Virginia Tunstall Clay-Clopton
• James Drake (Huntsville)^[6]
• Priscilla Holmes Drake (Huntsville)
• Scottie McKenzie Frasier (Dothan)^[7]
• Emera Frances Griffin (Huntsville)^[8]
• Ellen Hildreth (Decatur)
• Frances John Hobbs (Selma)
• Ellelee Chapman Humes (Huntsville)
• Bossie O'Brien Hundley (Huntsville)
• Pattie Ruffner Jacobs
• Helen Keller (Tuscumbia)
• Indiana Little^[9]
• Adella Hunt Logan (Tuskegee)
• Mary Parke London (Birmingham)
• Eugenie Marks (Mobile)
• Elizabeth "Bessie" Moore (Coal City)
• Mary Munson (Vinemont)
• Nellie Kimball Murdock (Birmingham)
• Carrie McCord Parke (Selma)
• Mary Partridge (Selma)
• Sally B. Powell (Montgomery)
• Mary Howard Raiford (Selma)
• Annie Buel Drake Robertson
• Pearl Still (Pell City)
• Alberta Chapman Taylor (Huntsville)
• Julia S. Tutwiler
• Margaret Murray Washington (Tuskegee)
• Mary Amelia John Watson (Selma)
• Hattie Hooker Wilkins (Selma)^[10]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• Benjamin Craig (Selma)
• Sam Will John

Publications

• Alabama Suffrage Bulletin, published by the Alabama Equal Suffrage Association starting in October 1915^[11]
• The Progressive Woman, created in 1913 and edited by Frances Griffin and Juliet Cook Olin^[12]

Suffragists who campaigned in Alabama

• Jane Addams.
• Susan B. Anthony.
• Belle Bennett.
• Julia Oates Randall Bonelli.^[13]
• Carrie Chapman Catt.
• Margaret Foley.^[14]
• Jean Gordon.
• Anna Howard Shaw^[15]

Anti-suffragists

Groups

• Alabama Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, created in 1916
• Alabama Woman's Anti-Ratification League (AWARL)^[16]
• Southern Women's Anti-ratification League

People

• John H. Bankhead
• Marie Bankhead Owen
• Oscar W. Underwood

See also

• 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

Sources

• Book: Anthony, Susan B.. The History of Woman Suffrage. The Hollenbeck Press. 1902. Anthony. Susan B.. 4. Indianapolis. Susan B. Anthony. Harper. Ida Husted.
• 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. 10.1353/ala.2020.0011. 219811342 . subscription. Project MUSE.
• Book: Harper, Ida Husted. The History of Woman Suffrage. J.J. Little & Ives Company. 1922. New York. Ida Husted Harper.
• Book: Rogers. William Warren. Alabama: The History of a Deep South State. Ward. Robert David. University of Alabama Press. 2018. 9780817391669. Bicentennial. Tuscaloosa. 376–391. Women in Alabama from 1865 to 1920. https://muse.jhu.edu/chapter/2171882. subscription. Project MUSE.
• Book: Thomas, Mary Martha. The New Woman in Alabama: Social Reforms and Suffrage, 1890-1920. University of Alabama Press. 1992. 9780817360108. Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alabama Suffragists. 2020-11-04. UA Libraries Digital Exhibits.
2. Web site: 2019-07-08. On this day in Alabama history: Women's rights leader dies. 2020-11-04. Alabama NewsCenter. en-US.
3. Web site: Worthy. Shalis. The 19th Amendment and Women's Suffrage: Women's Suffrage in Huntsville. 2020-11-06. Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. en.
4. News: 1915-04-18 . Junior Suffrage Corps Organized Recently . 26 . Birmingham Post-Herald . 2023-01-07 . Newspapers.com.
5. Web site: Worthy. Shalis. The 19th Amendment and Women's Suffrage: Suffrage & Race in Alabama. 2020-11-06. Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. en.
6. Web site: Worthy. Shalis. The 19th Amendment and Women's Suffrage: Women's Suffrage in Alabama. 2020-11-06. Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. en.
7. News: Phillips . Greg . Olliff . Marty . It Came from the Archives: Dothan's suffragist, Scottie McKenzie Frasier . 30 November 2023 . Troy Today . 16 December 2020.
8. Web site: Suffragists in Alabama. 2020-11-03. Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. en-US.
9. Web site: Royster. Briana Adline. 2019. Biographical Sketch of Indiana T. Little. 2021-12-08. search.alexanderstreet.com. Alexander Street.
10. Web site: Burnes. Valerie Pope. Alabama Equal Suffrage Association. 2020-11-02. Encyclopedia of Alabama. en.
11. Web site: Alabama Suffrage Bulletin, newsletter of the Alabama Equal Suffrage Association. 2020-11-06. Alabama Department of Archives and History. en.
12. Web site: First Volume of The Progressive Woman, a Weekly Magazine Published in Montgomery, Alabama. 2020-11-06. Alabama Department of Archives and History. en.
13. Web site: Nolan. Pamela. 26 August 2020. CELEBRATING THE 19TH AMENDMENT The path to vote: The Alabama Story, Part 4. 2020-11-06. The Greenville Standard. en-US.
14. Web site: Foley, Margaret, 1875-1957. Papers of Margaret Foley, 1847-1968 . 7 August 2024 . Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.
15. Web site: Burnes. Valerie Pope. Alabama Equal Suffrage Association. 2020-11-04. Encyclopedia of Alabama. en.
16. Web site: The Alabama Story. 2020-11-06. Alabama Women's Suffrage Centennial. en.