This is a list of Alaska suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in the U.S. territory, and later state, of Alaska.
Groups
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- Alaska Native Brotherhood, formed in 1912.[1]
- Alaska Native Sisterhood, formed in 1915.[1]
- National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).[2]
- Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).[3]
Suffragists and other voting rights advocates
edit- Ada Brownell (Seward).[4]
- Ida E. Green (Seward).[4]
- Margaret Keenan Harrais (Skagway).[5]
- Cornelia Templeton Hatcher (Knik).[3][5]
- Milo Kelly (Knik).[4]
- Emma Lefevre (Skagway).[5]
- Lena Morrow Lewis (Fairbanks).[6][5]
- Clara Michener (Ketchikan).[5]
- Francis Turner Pedersen (Seward).[4]
- Harriet Pullen (Skagway).[7]
- Lucy Record Spaeth (Ketchikan).[5]
- Arthur G. Stroup (Sitka).[2]
- Lulu Thompson (Juneau).[5]
Indigenous voting rights activists
edit- Tillie Paul (Tlingit).[8]
- William Paul (Tlingit).[9]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Sostaric, Katarina (2015-10-12). "Alaska Native Sisterhood celebrates 100th anniversary in Wrangell". KTOO. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
- ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 713.
- ^ a b Lapka, Alyssa (13 March 2019). "The Life of Cornelia Templeton Jewett Hatcher". Alaska Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ a b c d Beeton, Beverly; Parham, R. Bruce (July 2020). "Votes for Women, Woman Suffrage in Alaska: A Resource List". Alaska Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ a b c d e f g Carney, Amy. "Alaska's Suffrage Star: Home". Alaska Libraries, Archives, Museums. Retrieved 2020-11-12.
- ^ "Lena Morrow Lewis". Alaska Women's Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ Spude 2015, p. 223-224.
- ^ "Tillie Paul Tamaree & the Tlingit Community". Presbyterian Historical Society. 17 September 2020. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ Cole 1992, p. 432.
Sources
edit- Cole, Terrence M. (November 1992). "Jim Crow in Alaska: The Passage of the Alaska Equal Rights Act". Western Historical Quarterly. 23 (4): 429–449. doi:10.2307/970301. JSTOR 970301. S2CID 163528642 – via JSTOR.
- Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
- Spude, Catharine Holder (2015). Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806149974.