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.

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]
  • Selma Suffrage Association, created on March 29, 1910.[1][4]
  • Selma Suffragette Association.[6]
  • Tuskegee Women's Club.[7]

    Suffragists

    Alice Baldridge and her daughter

    Politicians supporting women's suffrage

    • Benjamin Craig (Selma).[15]
    • Sam Will John.[17]

    Publications

    • Alabama Suffrage Bulletin, published by the Alabama Equal Suffrage Association starting in October 1915.[18]
    • The Progressive Woman, created in 1913 and edited by Frances Griffin and Juliet Cook Olin.[19]

    Suffragists who campaigned in Alabama

    Anti-suffragists

    Groups

    • Alabama Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, created in 1916.[23]
    • Alabama Woman's Anti-Ratification League (AWARL).[24]
    • Southern Women's Anti-ratification League.[23]

    People

    See also

    References

    1. Rogers & Ward 2018, p. 381.
    2. "Alabama Suffragists". UA Libraries Digital Exhibits. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
    3. "On this day in Alabama history: Women's rights leader dies". Alabama NewsCenter. 2019-07-08. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
    4. Burnes 2020, p. 35.
    5. Worthy, Shalis. "The 19th Amendment and Women's Suffrage: Women's Suffrage in Huntsville". Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
    6. Burnes 2020, p. 33.
    7. Worthy, Shalis. "The 19th Amendment and Women's Suffrage: Suffrage & Race in Alabama". Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
    8. Rogers & Ward 2018, p. 380.
    9. Worthy, Shalis. "The 19th Amendment and Women's Suffrage: Women's Suffrage in Alabama". Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
    10. "Suffragists in Alabama". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 2020-11-03.
    11. Burnes 2020, p. 32-33.
    12. Harper 1922, p. 6.
    13. Harper 1922, p. 3.
    14. Thomas 1992, p. 136.
    15. Burnes 2020, p. 34.
    16. Burnes, Valerie Pope. "Alabama Equal Suffrage Association". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved 2020-11-02.
    17. Burnes 2020, p. 36.
    18. "Alabama Suffrage Bulletin, newsletter of the Alabama Equal Suffrage Association". Alabama Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
    19. "First Volume of The Progressive Woman, a Weekly Magazine Published in Montgomery, Alabama". Alabama Department of Archives and History. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
    20. Anthony 1902, p. 465.
    21. 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.
    22. Burnes, Valerie Pope. "Alabama Equal Suffrage Association". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved 2020-11-04.
    23. Rogers & Ward 2018, p. 382.
    24. "The Alabama Story". Alabama Women's Suffrage Centennial. Retrieved 2020-11-06.
    25. Harper 1922, p. 8.

    Sources

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