List of Minnesota suffragists
This is a list of Minnesota suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Minnesota.
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Groups
[edit]- Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association.[1]
- National Woman's Party.[2]
Suffragists
[edit]- Sarah Tarleton Colvin (1865–1949) – chairman of the Minnesota chapter of the National Woman's Party, arrested during the "Watchfire for Freedom" demonstrations.[2]
- Nellie Griswold Francis (1874–1969) – founded and led the Everywoman Suffrage Club, an African-American suffragist group in Minnesota, civil rights and anti-lynching activist.[3]
- Ella M. S. Marble (1850–1929) – physician; president of several state associations.[4]
- Sarah Burger Stearns (1836–1904) – first president of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association.[1]
Suffragists campaigning in Minnesota
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Stuhler, Barbara (1995). "Organizing for the vote. Leaders of Minnesota's Woman Suffrage Movement" (PDF). collections.MNhs.org. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 14, 2017. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
- ^ a b "Sarah Tarleton Colvin - Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
- ^ "Women's suffrage bill". The Nashville Globe. October 20, 1918. Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ Willard & Livermore 1893, p. 493.
- ^ "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.
Sources
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 492.
