This is a list of Georgia suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Georgia.
Groups
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- Atlanta Equal Suffrage League.[1]
- Augusta Equal Suffrage Association.[2]
- Business People's Suffrage Association.[3]
- Chatham County Branch of the Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia.[2]
- DeKalb Equal Suffrage Party.[3]
- Equal Suffrage Party of Augusta.[2]
- Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia.[4]
- Fulton Equal Suffrage Party.[3]
- Georgia Men's League for Woman Suffrage.[5]
- Georgia Woman Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1913.[5][4]
- Georgia Woman Suffrage Association (GWSA).[5]
- Georgia Young People's Suffrage Association, created in 1913.[4][6]
- Muscogee Equal Franchise League, formed in 1913.[7][4]
- National Woman's Party of Georgia, formed in 1917.[8]
- National Association of Colored Women (NACW).[9]
- Savannah Woman Suffrage Association, created in November 1914.[2]
Suffragists
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- Mary Harris Armor.[10]
- Rose Ashby.[11]
- Janie Porter Barrett.[5]
- Ruth Buckholz.[3]
- Beatrice Carleton.[11]
- Beatrice Castleton (Atlanta).[8]
- Rebecca Latimer Felton.[12]
- Leonard Grossman.[5]
- Will Harben (Dalton).[13]
- Walter B. Hill (Macon).[14]
- Lugenia Burns Hope (Atlanta).[4]
- Helen Augusta Howard (Columbus).[5][15]
- Jane Judge (Savannah).[16]
- Lucy Laney (Augusta).[17]
- Adella Hunt Logan.[5]
- Emma T. Martin.[8]
- Mary Latimer McClendon (Atlanta).[18]
- Emily C. McDougald.[19]
- Mary McCurdy.[5]
- Mary Raoul Millis.[20]
- Eleanor Raoul (Atlanta).[17]
- Jennie Hart Sibley (Union Point)[21]
- Frances Smith Whiteside.[4]
- Mamie George S. Williams (Savannah).[22]
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
editPlaces
editSuffragists who campaigned in Georgia
edit- Jane Addams.[4]
- Beulah Amidon.[8]
- Susan B. Anthony.[28]
- Henry Blackwell.[29]
- Lillie Devereaux Blake.[1]
- Ida Porter Boyer.[30]
- Madeline McDowell Breckinridge.[2]
- Carrie Chapman Catt.[29]
- Jean Gordon.[30]
- Kate M. Gordon.[26]
- Josephine K. Henry.[31]
- Elsie Hill.[8]
- Solon H. Jacobs.[32]
- Belle Kearney.[33]
- Catherine Kenny.[32]
- Harriet Burton Laidlaw.[30]
- Lide A. Meriwether.[1]
- Helen Ring Robinson.[2]
- Anna Howard Shaw.[29]
- Mabel Vernon.[34]
- Elizabeth Upham Yates.[1]
- Virginia D. Young.[35]
Anti-suffragists in Georgia
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People
- Warren Candler.[36]
- Dolly Blount Lamar.[37]
- Caroline Patterson (Macon).[37]
- Mildred Lewis Rutherford.[4]
- Hoke Smith.[38]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d Taylor 1944, p. 75.
- ^ a b c d e f Taylor 1958, p. 354.
- ^ a b c d Taylor 1958, p. 349.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Eltzroth, E. Lee (5 September 2002). "Woman Suffrage". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Georgia and the 19th Amendment". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 126.
- ^ "Augusta Howard's Dress". The Columbus Museum. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
- ^ a b c d e Taylor 1958, p. 348.
- ^ Partridge 2014, p. 10-11.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 124-125.
- ^ a b Taylor 1959, p. 22.
- ^ Summerlin 2009, p. 61.
- ^ Taylor 1944, p. 67.
- ^ Taylor 1944, p. 67-68.
- ^ Pirani, Fiza (17 August 2020). "An unfinished movement: Reflecting on 100 years of women's suffrage in Georgia". AJC. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
- ^ Landers, Lisa (2019-12-05). "Collection Highlights: Anna Howard Shaw and the Woman's Committee for War Work". Georgia History Festival. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
- ^ a b "Suffragists in Georgia". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
- ^ Pirani, Fiza (16 August 2020). "Remembering suffragettes with Georgia ties as 19th Amendment turns 100". AJC. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
- ^ Taylor 1959, p. 19-20.
- ^ Summerlin 2009, p. 92.
- ^ "Mrs. Jennie Hart Sibley, of Union Point, GA., Will Speak in Favor of Woman Suffrage". The Atlanta Journal. 5 July 1908. p. 34. Retrieved 6 January 2024 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Landers, Lisa (2019-11-21). "Collection Highlights: Program from the third Annual Meeting of the Savannah Federation of Negro Women's Clubs". Georgia History Festival. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
- ^ Summerlin 2009, p. 111.
- ^ Summerlin 2009, p. 109.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 125.
- ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 122.
- ^ Summerlin 2009, p. 32.
- ^ K.M.M. (March 1895). "Visit From Susan B. Anthony". The Bulletin of Atlanta University. No. 63. pp. 3–4. Retrieved 16 October 2020 – via HBCU Library Alliance.
- ^ a b c Summerlin 2009, p. 35.
- ^ a b c Taylor 1958, p. 350.
- ^ Taylor 1944, p. 76.
- ^ a b Taylor 1958, p. 352.
- ^ Taylor 1958, p. 342.
- ^ Taylor 1959, p. 24.
- ^ Taylor 1958, p. 340.
- ^ Summerlin 2009, p. 44.
- ^ a b Summerlin 2009, p. 70.
- ^ Summerlin 2009, p. 108.
Sources
edit- Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
- Partridge, Brittany (2014). Georgia Women and Their Struggle for the Vote (Thesis). Georgia Southern University.
- Summerlin, Elizabeth Stephens (2009). 'Not Ratified But Hereby Rejected': The Women's Suffrage Movement in Georgia, 1895-1925 (PDF) (Master of Arts thesis). The University of Georgia.
- Taylor, A. Elizabeth (June 1944). "The Origin of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Georgia". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 28 (2): 63–79. JSTOR 40576929 – via JSTOR.
- Taylor, A. Elizabeth (December 1958). "Revival and Development of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Georgia". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 42 (4): 339–354. JSTOR 40578025 – via JSTOR.
- Taylor, A. Elizabeth (March 1959). "The Last Phase of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Georgia". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 43 (1): 11–28. JSTOR 40577919 – via JSTOR.