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Part II: Black Women Suffragists

Introduction by Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar. (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2018)

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Part II: Black Women Suffragists, <p>Introduction by Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar. (Alexandria, VA: Alexander Street Press, 2018)</p> .

•Introduction to Part II: Black Women Suffragists

•Document List

•Christia Adair

•Osceola Macarthy Adams

•Sadie Lewis Adams

•Teresa Adams

•Rosebud Douglass Aggrey

•Sadie Tanner Alexander

•Winona Cargile Alexander

•Clarissa Minnie Thompson Allen

•Susan E. Cannon Allen

•Eliza Julia (Brockett or Brackett) Shadd Anderson

•Helen W. Anderson (Webb)

•Mamie Anderson

•Naomi Talbert Anderson

•Libbie (Libby) C. Anthony

•Blanche Armwood (Beatty) (Washington)

•Clara Byrd Baker

•Alice Gertrude Baldwin

•Maria Baldwin

•Annie Simms Banks

•Maria (Mrs. C. H.) Banks

•Carolyn "Carrie" Barnes

•Janie Porter Barrett

•Charlotta Spears Bass

•Emma Eliza Williamson Gray Bauduit

•Bessye J. Bearden

•Laura Beasley

•Mary Laurinda Jane Smith Beatty

•Ida M. Bowman Becks

•Charlotte Bell

•Mae E. Proffitt Bentley

•Ella G. Berry

•Mary V. Berry

•Mary McLeod Bethune

•Kizziah J. Bills

•Annie Walker Blackwell

•Bonnie Thomas Bogle

•Mary Cordelia Montgomery Booze

•Bertha C. Boschulte

•Rosa L. Dixon Bowser

•Rose Talliaferro Bradic

•Mary Elizabeth Branch

•Louise Beatrice Braxton

•Mary E. Britton

•Julia Evangeline Brooks

•Agnes H. Brown

•Charlotte Hawkins Brown

•Ella Barksdale Brown

•Hallie Quinn Brown

•Harriet "Hattie" W. Brown

•Ida E. Duckett Brown

•Jacinthia Perry Brown

•Minnie G. Brown

•Sara W. Brown

•Sue M. Wilson Brown

•Josephine Beall Willson Bruce

•Eva Carter Buckner

•Mary E. Cary Burrell

•Mary P. (Mamie) Burrill

•Nannie H. Burroughs

•Louisa C. (Hatton) Crawford Butler

•Marian D. Butler

•Elizabeth Cain

•Bertha Pitts Campbell

•Grace Campbell

•Beatrice Hulon Morrow Cannady

•Fannie B. Cardozo

•Evie Lee Carpenter (Spencer)

•Elizabeth C. Carter (Brooks)

•Jeannette Carter

•Mary Ann Shadd Cary

•Melnea Agnes Cass

•Emma Jones Chandler

•Caroline Chase

•Elizabeth Chase

•Augusta Theodosia Lewis Chissell

•Helen E. Christian

•Mary C. Beasley Byron Clarke

•Norma Clayton (Bacchus)

•Anna Allene Clemmons

•Carrie Williams Clifford

•Julia P. H. Coleman

•Mattie Coleman

•Maude B. Deering Coleman

•Anna Collins

•Colored Women's Republican Club, Paterson, NJ

•Edna Meade Colson

•Coralie Franklin Cook

•Helen A. Cook

•Mary V. Cook

•Myrtle Foster Cook

•Anna Julia Haywood Cooper

•Fannie Wilson Cooper

•Laura McAdoo Craver

•Henrietta Green Crawford

•Josephine Bromell Crawford

•Minnie Lou Crosthwaite

•Ethel L. Cuff (Black)

•Ida R. Cummings

•Madge L. Cuney

•Ella Cunningham

•Gertrude E. Curtis

•Helen M. Curtis

•Namah Gertrude Sockhum Curtis

•Alice Matilda Thomas Davis

•Elizabeth L. Davis

•Julia E. Davis

•Hattie Branch DeHart

•Ida Clark DePriest

•Charlotte Washington Dett

•Rosa Belle (Yancey) Dewitt

•Addie Whiteman Dickerson

•Mamie Dillard

•Bessie Spence Dorrell

•Cecilia Sterrett Dorrell

•Julia Dorsey

•Armita Harris Douglas

•Sarah Mapps Douglass

•Virginia Hewlett Douglass

•Helena Johnson Downey

•Eliza A. Duffield

•Roberta J. Dunbar

•Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson

•Mary E. Eato

•Mary Elizabeth Edwards (Nemard)

•Fannie Emanuel

•Elizabeth L. Piper Ensley

•Mary James Broadnax Faulcon

•Lugie Buck Ferguson

•Sarah Haws Baker Fields

•Elizabeth Fisher

•Laura B. Fisher

•Lulie Niles Fisher

•Lethia Cousins Fleming

•Lucy Monroe Flint

•Charlotte Forten

•Margaretta Forten

•Sarah Forten

•Bettiola Heloise Fortson

•Susie Smith Fountain

•Fourth Ward Colored Women's Republican Club, Camden, NJ

•Elizabeth Beatrice Cook "Lizzie" Fouse

•Lillian Parker Thomas Fox

•Nellie Griswold Francis

•Johnella Frazer (Jackson)

•Susan Elizabeth Frazier

•Lucretia A. Freeman

•Irene McCoy Gaines

•Minnie L. Gaines

•Sarah Garnet

•Enola McDaniel George

•Blanche A. Harris Gilmere (Wills)

•Mary Goodwin

•Amanda V. Gray

•Edith Gray (Williams) (Johnston)

•Katherine Gray

•Louisa Howard Gray

•Monen L. Gray (Logan)

•Mary Ann Green

•Phoebe A. Green

•Vera Virginia Wesley Greene

•Musette Brooks Gregory

•Mary Mossell Griffin

•Angelina Weld Grimke

•Victoria Haley

•Elmyra Moore Hall

•Fannie Hopkins Hamilton

•Susie Estella Palmer Hamilton

•Mary Frisby Handy

•Marie I. Hardwick

•Mary Elizabeth Hardy

•Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

•Blanche Harris

•Rozie Harris

•Sylvia A. Harris

•Daisy D. Hart

•Margaret Briggs Gregory Hawkins

•Elizabeth Ross Haynes

•Martha Euphemia Rosalie Lofton Haynes

•Eugenia V. Heathman

•Charlotte "Lottie" Henderson

•Florence Henderson

•Mary Ellen (Nellie) Henderson

•Bertha G. Higgins

•Jewelia Ann Galloway Higgins

•Edmonia Highgate

•Sarah Julia Highwarden

•Viola E. Hill

•Annie E. Hitchens

•Helen Holman

•Josephine Pinyon Holmes

•Lugenia Burns Hope

•Cora Catherine Calhoun Horne

•Carrie S. Cook Horton

•Ida Alexander Gibbs Hunt

•Addie Waites Hunton

•Bertha K. Hurst

•Caroline Smith Isham

•Addie Wilkins Jackson

•Estelle C. Jackson

•Ida Joyce Jackson

•Lottie Wilson Jackson

•Lydia Flood Jackson

•Mary E. Jackson

•May Howard Jackson

•Sarah R. Jackson

•Louisa Jacobs

•Hester Jeffreys

•Elizabeth Johnson

•Georgia Douglas Johnson

•Harriet C. Johnson

•Lena M. Johnson

•Nettie Johnson

•Violet A. Johnson

•Anna H. Jones

•Anna V. Jones

•Blanche Virginia Harris Brooks Jones

•Margaret Brown Judge

•Emma V. Lee Kelley

•Lula Marie Spaulding Kelsey

•Frances R. Keyser

•Willie Mae King (Cannon)

•Daisy E. Lampkin

•Emma Landcaster

•Lucy Craft Laney

•Rosetta E. Coakley Lawson

•Maria Coles Perkins Lawton

•S. Willie Layton

•Delpha Lazenbury

•Harriet Ann Lee

•Annie K. Lewis

•Ida Delia (Pelkey) Lewis

•Anna Laura Lindsay

•Indiana T. Little

•Adella Hunt Logan

•Josephine B. Long

•Grace Lucas-Thompson

•Maritcha Lyons

•Madelyn Mary Lysbey

•Mary E. Ford Lysbey

•Theresa Gray Macon

•Susie Douglass Pinn Madden

•Harriet (Hattie) Gibbs Marshall

•Mary Brown Martin

•Abbie K. Mason

•Marie Louise (Slade) Mason

•Victoria Earle Matthews

•Elizabeth Goodloe Mays

•Jennie Johnson Shaw Mays

•Mabelle McAdoo

•Elizabeth N. V. McCoy

•Mary Eleanora McCoy

•Mary J. McCrorey

•Mary A. McCurdy

•Mattie McGhee

•Ada Sophia McKinley

•Bertha Clay McNeill

•Bessie Brown Mention

•Emma F. G. Merritt

•Elizabeth A. Mickens

•Beatrice Miller

•Vivian Mills

•Edwina M. Wright Mitchell

•Sarah A. Moles

•Jimmie Belle Bugg Middleton

•Irene Moorman

•Rosa Moorman

•Verina Morton-Jones

•Gertrude Bustill Mossell

•Jennie Moton

•Josephine Heriot Dibble Murphy

•Anna Jane Evans Murray

•Lula Hugley Murry

•Jennie Mustapha

•Nettie Napier

•Charlotte Nesbitt

•Nannie Lucretia Nichols (Pieters)

•Nellie B. Nicholson

•Josephine B. Mathews Norcom

•Georgia Anne Nugent

•Georgianna K. Offutt

•Sarah Massey Overton

•Florena Kerr Owens

•Lucille P. Owens

•Caroline "Caddie" Eliot Parke

•Millie Lawson Bethell Paxton

•Clara Louise Payne

•Nellie C. Penick

•Eliza Eubanks Peterson (Johnson)

•Sarah Dudley Pettey

•Fannie H. Phillips

•Julia B. Phillips

•Juno Frankie Pierce

•Joanna Snowden Porter

•Katie D. Stores Pratt (Johnson)

•Alice Moore Presto

•Frances E. L. Preston

•Harriet Kilson (Green) Price

•Nancy Prince

•Lucy Proffitt

•Harriet Davy Forten Purvis

•Harriet "Hattie" Purvis

•Caroline Remond Putnam

•Nellie Quander

•Florence Spearing Randolph

•Kate Randolph

•Virginia Marie Cabell Randolph

•Emma Comer Ransom

•Charlotte B. Ray

•Charlotte E. Ray

•Cordelia Ray

•Harriet "Hattie" Redmond

•Pinkie B. Belcher Reeves

•Edna Lilian Johnson Reid

•Sarah Parker Remond

•Inez Richardson (Wilson)

•Naomi Sewell Richardson

•Florida Ruffin Ridley

•Ruth Logan Roberts

•Georgia Ann Hill Robinson

•Charlotte (Lottie) M. Rollin

•Frances Anne Rollin

•Louisa Rollin

•Jennie Howard Ross

•Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

•Gertrude Elzora Durden Rush

•Paralee Lagon Gough Sampson

•Rosetta Larue Sands

•Emma Lue Sayers

•Alice Bartee Scott

•Alice Wiley Seay

•Mary Townsend Seymour

•Harriet Shadd

•Madeline Sheppard

•Eliza Pearl Shippen

•Myra Virginia Simmons

•Georgia Rose Simpson

•Lizzie Brown Sims

•Josephine Lewis Parke Slade

•Lucy Diggs Slowe

•Anna Bustill Smith

•Annie E. Smith

•Lucy Wilmot Smith

•Lydia C. Smith

•Mary Ardley Smith

•Vivian Smith

•Vada Somerville

•Mary C. Sparrow

•Victorine Spears

•Eliza Spencer

•Lucy J. Sprague

•Rosetta Douglass Sprague

•Melba Stafford

•Lizzie Fentress Stanard

•Lucy J. Boulding Stephens

•Susan Smith McKinney Steward

•Charlotte Stewart

•Georgia Stewart

•Maria W. Stewart

•Ora E. Brown Stokes

•Marie Jackson Stuart

•Blanche Stubbs

•Mary B. Talbert

•Daisy Robinson Tapley

•Sarah E. Tate

•Elizabeth Washington Taylor

•Mary E. Taylor

•Nora Fields Taylor

•Mary Eliza Church Terrell

•Phyllis Terrell

•Annie Thomas

•Janette "Jennie" Thomas

•Laura Thomas

•Beatrice Sumner Thompson

•Adah Belle Samuels Thoms

•Ida Morgan Thornton

•Lucy Thurman

•Hettie Blonde Tilghman

•Florence Letcher Toms

•Minta Bosley Allen Trotman

•Sojourner Truth

•Carrie A. Griggs Tuggle

•Lulu Vashti Turley (Murphy)

•Lillian A. Turner

•Maria A. Tyson

•Grace Booth Valentine

•Bess Bolden Walcott

•Elsie Walker (Johns)

•Madam C. J. Walker

•Maggie Lena Walker

•Amanda Ann Thomas Wall

•Anna E. Harris Walls

•Mary Fitzbutler Waring

•Annie Pride Washington

•Margaret Murray Washington

•Sadie B. Monroe Waters (Taylor)

•Alice L. Thompson Waytes

•Lizzie Koontz Weeks

•Ida B. Wells-Barnett

•Ophelia Brown Wells

•Daisy E. Welsh

•Irene Augusta Moore West

•Laura A. Moore Westbrook

•Hazel D. Westray

•Lucille Wheelock (Williams)

•Matilda Wheelock

•Madree Penn White

•Blanche E. Colder Wilkinson

•Marion B. Wilkinson

•Caroline B. Williams

•Catherine Mary Douge Williams

•Edith L. Williams

•Fannie Barrier Williams

•Laura L. (Mrs. Tobe) Williams

•Maude Evangeline Craig Sampson Williams

•Mrs. I. J. Williams

•Sylvanie F. Williams

•Blanche H. Wines

•Mary J. Johnson Woodlen

•Josephine Yates

•Estelle Hall Young

•Mary Lucinda (Mrs. W. L.) Young

•Mary M. Sharperson Young

•Results List of Scholarly Essays (Only Available to WASS Subscribers)

•Project Credits

•Suffragists added September 2017

•Suffragists added March 2018

•Suffragists added September 2018

•Suffragists added March 2019

•Suffragists added to the Collection, December 2019

•Suffragists added June 2020

•Suffragists added December 2020

•Suffragists added June 2021

•Suffragists added December 2021

•Suffragists added June 2022

•Suffragists added December 2022

•Suffragists added June 2023