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.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (November 2020)

Groups

  • 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

Alice Baldridge and her daughter
  • 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[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

  • Benjamin Craig (Selma)[18]
  • Sam Will John[20]

Publications

  • 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

Anti-suffragists

Groups

  • Alabama Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, created in 1916[26]
  • Alabama Woman's Anti-Ratification League (AWARL)[27]
  • Southern Women's Anti-ratification League[26]

People

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Rogers & Ward 2018, p. 381.
  2. ^ "Alabama Suffragists". UA Libraries Digital Exhibits. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
  3. ^ a b "On this day in Alabama history: Women's rights leader dies". Alabama NewsCenter. 2019-07-08. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Burnes 2020, p. 35.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "Junior Suffrage Corps Organized Recently". Birmingham Post-Herald. 1915-04-18. p. 26. Retrieved 2023-01-07 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ Burnes 2020, p. 33.
  8. ^ Worthy, Shalis. "The 19th Amendment and Women's Suffrage: Suffrage & Race in Alabama". Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
  9. ^ a b c d Rogers & Ward 2018, p. 380.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ Phillips, Greg; Olliff, Marty (16 December 2020). "It Came from the Archives: Dothan's suffragist, Scottie McKenzie Frasier". Troy Today. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  12. ^ a b c "Suffragists in Alabama". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
  13. ^ Burnes 2020, p. 32-33.
  14. ^ Royster, Briana Adline (2019). "Biographical Sketch of Indiana T. Little". search.alexanderstreet.com. Alexander Street. Retrieved 2021-12-08.
  15. ^ Harper 1922, p. 6.
  16. ^ a b c d e Harper 1922, p. 3.
  17. ^ a b c Thomas 1992, p. 136.
  18. ^ a b Burnes 2020, p. 34.
  19. ^ Burnes, Valerie Pope. "Alabama Equal Suffrage Association". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
  20. ^ Burnes 2020, p. 36.
  21. ^ "Alabama Suffrage Bulletin, newsletter of the Alabama Equal Suffrage Association". Alabama Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
  22. ^ "First Volume of The Progressive Woman, a Weekly Magazine Published in Montgomery, Alabama". Alabama Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
  23. ^ a b Anthony 1902, p. 465.
  24. ^ 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.
  25. ^ Burnes, Valerie Pope. "Alabama Equal Suffrage Association". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
  26. ^ a b c Rogers & Ward 2018, p. 382.
  27. ^ "The Alabama Story". Alabama Women's Suffrage Centennial. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
  28. ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 8.

Sources

  • 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.