List of American suffragists explained

This is a list of suffragists from the United States and its territories. This list includes suffragists who worked across state lines or nationally. See individual state or territory lists for other American suffragists not listed here.

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Notes and References

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  2. Neuman . Johanna . July 2017 . Who Won Women's Suffrage? A Case for 'Mere Men' . The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era . en . 16 . 3 . 347–367 . 10.1017/S1537781417000081 . 1537-7814 . free.
  3. Web site: Knight . R. Cecilia . Adams, Mary Newbury (or Newberry) . University of Iowa . 15 January 2018.
  4. Web site: Woman Suffrage . 2024-07-25 . National History Day: Conflict and Compromise · Jane Addams Digital Edition.
  5. News: Miss Edith Ainge, of Jamestown, New York, the first delegate to the convention of the National Woman's Party to arrive at Woman's Party headquarters in Washington, Miss Ainge is holding the New York state banner which will be carried by New York's delegation of 68 women at the conven. The Library of Congress. 31 July 2018. en.
  6. Web site: Timeline – Making Women's History. www.sunyjcc.edu. en-US. 31 July 2018. 31 July 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180731213104/https://www.sunyjcc.edu/womenshistory/suffragemovement/timeline/. dead.
  7. Web site: Edith Ainge Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. suffragistmemorial.org. 9 July 2017. en-US. 31 July 2018.
  8. Web site: Nina Allender . 2024-07-31 . U.S. National Park Service . en.
  9. Web site: African American Women Leaders in the Suffrage Movement . 2023-03-22 . Turning Point Suffragist Memorial . en-US.
  10. News: Senators to Vote on Suffrage Today; Fate of Susan B. Anthony Amendment Hangs in Balance on Eve of Final Test. New York Times. 26 September 1918.
  11. Web site: Annie Arniel (1870-1924) . 2024-07-31 . Turning Point Suffragist Memorial . en-US.
  12. Web site: A Noble Endeavor: Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Suffrage . 2024-07-31 . U.S. National Park Service . en.
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  27. Web site: Olympia Brown . 2024-08-01 . St. Lawrence University . en.
  28. Web site: Lucy Burns . 2024-08-01 . U.S. National Park Service . en.
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  30. Biography of Marion Hamilton Carter, 1865-1937 . Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 . Alexander Street.
  31. Web site: Iowans in the Suffrage Movement . 1 August 2024 . Greater Des Moines Partnership.
  32. News: Scutts . Joanna . 2014-03-07 . 'The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage and Scandal in Gilded Age' by Myra MacPherson . 2 August 2024 . The Washington Post . en-US . 0190-8286.
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  35. Web site: Thomas . Beth . Suffrage – Bristol . 2024-08-03 . Ontario County Historical Society . en-US.
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  39. Web site: Ida A. Craft, Brooklyn's Suffrage Pioneer . 2022-12-28 . Kingsborough Art Museum . en-US.
  40. Web site: "Millions of women await your next message, Mr. President": The Fight for Women's Suffrage in Letters to President Wilson . 2024-08-03 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
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  43. Web site: Frederick Douglass: A 'Radical Woman Suffrage Man' . 2024-08-05 . U.S. National Park Service . en.
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  47. Web site: Brubaker . Jana . Biographical Sketch of Elizabeth Glendower Evans . 6 August 2024 . Biographical Database of Militant Women Suffragists . Alexander Street Documents.
  48. Web site: Janet Ayer Fairbank . subscription . 6 August 2024 . Oxford Reference . Oxford University Press . en.
  49. Web site: Bensley . Lucas . 2020-03-01 . Suffer Not the Rain: The 1916 Suffrage Parade in Chicago . 2020-10-30 . Suffrage 2020 Illinois . en.
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  51. News: 16 November 1914 . SINGLE TAX ADVOCATE ATTEND CONVENTION . 7 August 2024 . The Tennessean . 2 . en . Newspapers.com.
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  59. Web site: Mount Airy: Home of Helen Hoy Greeley . Piedmont Virginia Digital History: The Land Between the Rivers . 7 February 1913 . 9 July 2018.
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  63. Web site: Ida Husted Harper . 2024-08-09 . Indiana Journalism Hall of Fame . en-US.
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  68. Web site: Helena Hill Weed, Norwalk, Conn. Serving 3 day sentence in D.C. prison for carrying banner, "Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." . 2024-08-19 . Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
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