List of California suffragists explained

This is a list of notable California suffragists who were politically active before and during the successful Proposition 4 in 1911 which gave women won the right to vote.

Groups

• California Equal Suffrage Association^[1]
• California Political Equality League^[2]
  • California Woman Suffrage Society Congressional Union for Women Suffrage
• Fannie Jackson Coppin Club^[3]
• Los Angeles Forum of Colored Women.^[4]
• National American Woman Suffrage Association
• National Woman's Party^[5]
• Political Equality Club of Alameda
• Votes for Women Club^[6]
• Women's Christian Temperance Union^[7]
• Woman's Club of Palo Alto^[8]
• Young Women's Suffrage Club

Early 19th century suffragists

• Anna Dickinson
• Laura de Force Gordon^[9]
• Georgiana Bruce Kirby^[10]
• Emily Pitts Stevens^[11]
• Ellen Clark Sargent^[12]
• Elizabeth Lowe Watson

Suffragists in the 1896 campaign

• Naomi Anderson^[13]
• Alida Avery^[14]
• Addie Ballou^[15]
• James H. Barry^[16]
• Nellie Holbrook Blinn
• Ada Chastina Bowles^[17]
• Elinor Majors Carlisle^[18]
• Jeanne Carr^[19]
• Thomas V. Cator^[20]
• Ina Donna Coolbrith^[21]
• Sarah Brown Ingersoll Cooper^[22]
• Henry Clay Dibble^[23]
• Nellie Blessing Eyster^[24]
• Clara Shortridge Foltz
• Sarah Dix Hamlin^[25]
• Ida Harper^[26]
• Harriet Hobe^[27]
• Emma Shafter Howard^[28]
• Sarah Knox-Goodrich^[29]
• Eliza D. Keith^[30]
• Sara Lemmon^[31]
• Margaret V. Longley^[32]
• Agnes M. Manning^[33]
• Alice Moore McComas^[34]
• Frances W. McLean
• Kate Moody^[35]
• Mabel V. Osbourne^[36]
• Mary Goldsmith Prag^[37]
• Jennie Phelps Purvis^[38]
• Anna M. Morrison Reed.^[39]
• Ellen Clark Sargent^[40]
• Rebecca Spring
• Jane Lathrop Stanford^[41]
• Anna Strunsky^[42]
• Beaumelle Sturtevant-Peet^[43]
• Mary Louise Swett^[44]
• Laura Lyon White^[45]
• Charlotte Anita Whitney^[46]
• Eliza Tucker Wilkes
• Elizabeth Yates^[47]

Suffragists who campaigned in California

• • Lucy Anthony Susan B. Anthony^[48]
• Carrie Chapman Catt
• Abigail Scott Duniway^[49]
• Helen Hoy Greeley.^{[50] [51]}
• Julia Ward Howe
• Florence Kelley^[52]
• Anne Henrietta Martin^[53]
• Anna Howard Shaw
• Sylvia Pankhurst
• Helen Todd^[54]

See also

• Timeline of women's suffrage in California
• Women's suffrage in California
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

Notes and References

1. Web site: California Equal Suffrage Association collection, circa 1906-1918. oac.cdlib.org. 2019-11-26.
2. Web site: Kroeger. Brooke. Should We Care What the Men Did?. 2020-10-12. Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission. en-US.
3. Web site: Fannie Jackson Coppin Club • BlackPast. Moore. Shirley Ann Wilson. 2007-01-19. BlackPast. en-US. 2019-11-26.
4. Web site: Smith . Sode . Biographical Sketch of Eva Carter Buckner . 2023-03-28 . Alexander Street.
5. Web site: Miss Gail Laughlin, of Portland, member of the Maine Legislature and National Vice President of the National Woman's Party, who will preside at the national Convention of the National Woman's Party in Colorado Spring July 7th to 10th, and will be the chief speaker on the Speakers' Tra. Library of Congress. 2019-11-26.
6. Web site: California Women Suffrage Centennial California Secretary of State. www.sos.ca.gov. 2019-11-26.
7. Web site: Petaluma's Past: Celebrating 100 years of women's votes in California. 2019-11-06. Petaluma Argus Courier. en. 2019-11-26.
8. Web site: Medina. Anna. June 11, 2016. Woman's Club of Palo Alto celebrates a centennial milestone. 2020-09-26. PaloAltoOnline.com. en.
9. Book: Downey, Lynn. Gordon, Laura de Force (1838-1907), suffragist, newspaper publisher, and attorney. 2000. Oxford University Press. American National Biography Online. 10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1500281.
10. Web site: Elizabeth Lowe Watson - FoundSF. www.foundsf.org. 2019-12-01.
11. Chandler. Robert J.. 1994. In the Van: Spiritualists as Catalysts for the California Women's Suffrage Movement. California History. 73. 3. 188–201. 10.2307/25177431. 0162-2897. 25177431.
12. Book: Gullett, Gayle. Becoming Citizens: The Emergence and Development of the California Women's Movement 1880-1911.
13. Web site: Since the 1870s, the West has led the way for women in politics. Sept. 11. Jennifer Helton. Now. 2019 Like Tweet Email Print Subscribe Donate. 2019-09-11. www.hcn.org. en-us. 2019-12-07.
14. Book: History of Woman Suffrage: 1900-1920. 52. alida avery california suffrage.. Stanton. Elizabeth Cady. Anthony. Susan B.. Gage. Matilda Joslyn. Harper. Ida Husted. 1922. Fowler & Wells. en.
15. Book: Davis, Reda. California Women: A Guide to Their Politics 1885-1911. 1967.
16. Johnson. Audrey Mackey. 1962. A historical study of the woman suffrage movement in California, 1910-1911. University of the Pacific.
17. Tetrault. Lisa. 2010. The Incorporation of American Feminism: Suffragists and the Postbellum Lyceum. The Journal of American History. 96. 4. 1027–1056. 0021-8723. 40661824. 10.1093/jahist/96.4.1027. free.
18. Web site: Biographical Sketch of Elinor Majors Carlisle Alexander Street Documents. documents.alexanderstreet.com. 2019-11-26.
19. Web site: Guide to the Laura Gordon papers [ca. 1856-1882]]. oac.cdlib.org. 2019-12-01.
20. Book: Mead, Rebecca. How the Vote Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868-1914. 2006-01-01. NYU Press. 978-0-8147-5991-2. en.
21. Web site: Ina Donna Coolbrith American poet. Encyclopedia Britannica. en. 2019-11-26.
22. Web site: Guide to the Sarah Brown Ingersoll Cooper papers, 1813-1921.. rmc.library.cornell.edu. 2019-11-26.
23. Web site: Sutro Baths was test case for blacks' civil rights. Elinson. Elaine. 2012-05-27. SFGate. 2019-12-02.
24. Book: Gullett, Gayle. Becoming Citizens: The Emergence and Development of the California Women's Movement, 1880-1911. 2000-02-07. University of Illinois Press. 978-0-252-09331-9. en.
25. Web site: https://www.pressreader.com/usa/san-francisco-chronicle/20110918/306334248884973. PressReader. 2019-11-29.
26. Web site: Los Angeles Herald 12 April 1896 — California Digital Newspaper Collection. cdnc.ucr.edu. 2019-11-26.
27. Book: Association, National American Woman Suffrage. The Hand Book of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention. 1893. en.
28. Smith. Sarah. 2018. "Make it a Woman's World": The 1911 California Woman Suffrage Campaign. Voces Novae.
29. Web site: San Jose Loses An Old Resident. 1903. San Francisco Call.
30. Portraits of Pioneers. An Historic Susan B. Anthony Club. . The Woman Citizen . 1917 . 2 . 232 . 27 August 2022 . Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission . en.
31. Book: History of Woman Suffrage: 1883-1900. Stanton. Elizabeth Cady. Anthony. Susan B.. Harper. Ida Husted. Gage. Matilda Joslyn. 1902. Fowler & Wells. en.
32. Web site: Los Angeles Herald 17 March 1895 — California Digital Newspaper Collection. cdnc.ucr.edu. 2019-11-30.
33. Web site: Complete Freedom for Women.. digital.library.upenn.edu. 2019-11-30.
34. Web site: Suffragists in California Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. en-US. 2019-11-30.
35. Web site: Los Angeles Herald 12 April 1896 — California Digital Newspaper Collection. cdnc.ucr.edu. 2019-11-26.
36. Book: The Women of the Suffrage Movement: Autobiographies & Biographies of the Most Influential Suffragettes. Addams. Jane. Stanton. Elizabeth Cady. Harper. Ida Husted. Shaw. Anna Howard. Fawcett. Millicent Garrett. Pankhurst. Emmeline. Blackwell. Alice Stone. 2018-03-21. e-artnow. 978-80-272-4281-8. en.
37. Web site: Mary Goldsmith Prag Jewish Women's Archive. jwa.org. 2019-11-30.
38. Book: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. History of Woman Suffrage. 2018-03-01. B&R Samizdat Express. 978-1-4554-0394-3. en.
39. Book: Herringshaw . Thomas William . Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century: Accurate and Succinct Biographies of Famous Men and Women in All Walks of Life who are Or Have Been the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States Since Its Formation . 1898 . American Publishers' Association . 777 . en . 27 May 2024.
40. Web site: WOMEN CLAIM THE VOTE IN CALIFORNIA - FoundSF. www.foundsf.org. 2019-11-26.
41. Web site: Getting out the vote. www.paloaltoonline.com. 2019-12-01.
42. Web site: Anna Strunsky Walling Jewish Women's Archive. jwa.org. 2019-12-01.
43. Book: Cherny . Robert W. . California Women and Politics: From the Gold Rush to the Great Depression . 2011 . U of Nebraska Press . 978-0-8032-3608-0 . 71 . 8 October 2023 . en.
44. Web site: Women Win the Vote – in California and the Nation – Museum of the San Ramon Valley. en. 2019-11-26.
45. Web site: A cult of beauty: the public life and civic work of Laura Lyon White. - Free Online Library. www.thefreelibrary.com. 2019-12-01.
46. Web site: Whitney, Charlotte Anita (1867–1955) Encyclopedia.com. www.encyclopedia.com. 2019-12-01.
47. Web site: Los Angeles Herald 12 April 1896 — California Digital Newspaper Collection. cdnc.ucr.edu. 2019-11-26.
48. Web site: Susan B. Anthony House salutes California on its suffrage centennial! – National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House. 13 October 2011 . en-US. 2019-11-26.
49. Web site: SHE FLIES WITH HER OWN WINGS. November 29, 2019.
50. Web site: 7 February 1913 . Mount Airy: Home of Helen Hoy Greeley . 9 July 2018 . Piedmont Virginia Digital History: The Land Between the Rivers.
51. Web site: 21 August 2015 . Helen Hoy Greeley Collected Papers (CDG-A), Swarthmore College Peace Collection . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160423175148/http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/CDGA.A-L/greeleyhh.html . 23 April 2016 . 9 July 2018 . Swarthmore Home.
52. Web site: Guide to the Women's Suffrage Collection. oac.cdlib.org. 2019-11-29.
53. Web site: Anne Martin (1875 – 1951) Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. en-US. 2019-11-30.
54. Web site: Urges Women to Be Politicians. 5 October 1911. Sacramento Union. 2019-12-01.