This is a list of Rhode Island suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Rhode Island.
Groups
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- Bristol Equal Suffrage League.[1]
- College Equal Suffrage League, Rhode Island group formed in 1907.[2][3]
- Congressional Union of Providence, Rhode Island, created in 1916.[4]
- Jamestown Equal Suffrage League.[5]
- Newport County Woman Suffrage League, founded in 1908.[6][7]
- Providence Woman Suffrage Party.[3]
- Rhode Island Equal Suffrage Association, formed in 1915.[3]
- Rhode Island Women's Suffrage Association, created in 1868.[8]
- Rhode Island Women's Suffrage Party, created in 1913.[3]
- Rhode Island Union of Colored Women's Clubs, created in 1903.[2][9]
- Woman's Newport League.[2]
- Women's Political Equality League of Providence.[4]
Suffragists
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- Esther H. Abelson (Pawtucket).[1]
- Sara Algeo.[2]
- Agnes Bacon (Providence).[1]
- Mary Rathbone Kelly Ballou (Providence and Portsmouth).[10]
- Alva Belmont (Newport).[11]
- Mae E. Profitt Bentley (Providence).[12]
- Ellen M. Bolles.[13]
- Rose Talliaferro Bradic (Providence).[14]
- Emeline S. Burlingame (1836–1923).[15]
- Margaret M. Campbell.[16]
- Elizabeth Buffum Chace (Providence).[8]
- Elizabeth Kittridge Churchill.[16]
- Paulina Wright Davis (Providence).[8]
- Ardelia C. Dewing.[17]
- Mary H. Dickerson (Newport).[2]
- Sarah E. Doyle.[18]
- Maud Howe Elliot (Newport).[4]
- Jeanette S. French.[19]
- Hannah E. Greene (Providence).[2]
- Annie M. Griffin.[13]
- Frederick A. Hinckley (Providence).[13]
- Bertha Higgins (Providence).[2]
- Julia Ward Howe (Portsmouth).[4]
- Mary E. Jackson (Providence).[2]
- Maria Albertina Kindberg (Providence).[4]
- Maria Ingeborg Kindstedt (Providence).[4]
- Sophia Little.[20]
- Deborah Knox Livingston.[1]
- Clara Brownell May Miller (Newport).[6]
- Martha H. Mowry (Providence).
- Mabel E. Orgelman (Bristol).[1]
- Fanny Purdy Palmer (Providence)[21]
- Annie Peck (Providence).[20]
- Rhoda Anna Fairbanks Peckham.[13]
- Lucy Proffitt.[22]
- Charlotte B. Wilbour.[23]
- Anna Garlin Spencer (Providence).[2]
- Rowena Peck Barnes Tingley.[23]
- Camillo von Klenze.[24]
- Frances H. Whipple (Providence).[20]
- Sarah Helen Whitman (Providence).[18]
- Lillie Chace Wyman (Valley Falls).[4]
- Elizabeth Upham Yates.[25]
Politicians supporting women's suffrage
edit- Robert Livingston Beeckman.[18]
- Clark Burdick (Newport).[26]
- Edward L. Freeman.[18]
- Joseph H. Gainer (Providence).[27]
- Daniel L. D. Granger (Providence).[28]
- Richard W. Jennings.[18]
- Henry B. Kane (Narragansett).[26]
- Walter R. Stiness.[29]
Suffragists campaigning in Rhode Island
edit- Susan B. Anthony.[2]
- Henry B. Blackwell.[30]
- Carrie Chapman Catt.[31]
- Adelaide A. Claifin.[30]
- James Henry Darlington.[26]
- Frederick Douglass.[2]
- Mary F. Eastman.[32]
- William Lloyd Garrison.[32]
- Laura M. Johns.[33]
- Mary Johnston.[34]
- Louise Hall.[35]
- Henry S. Nash.[25]
- Cora Scott Pond.[30]
- Anna Howard Shaw.[36]
- Doris Stevens.[37]
- Lucy Stone.[32]
- Zerelda G. Wallace.[30]
Places
editPublications
edit- The Amendment.[2]
- The Pioneer and Woman's Advocate, founded in 1852.[18]
- The Una, founded in 1853.[39]
Anti-suffragists
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- Rhode Island Association in Opposition to Woman Suffrage.[40]
Individuals
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e "Centennial & Suffrage History". MyLO. 2020-06-17. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Stevens, Elizabeth C. "The Struggle for Woman Suffrage in Rhode Island". EnCompass. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ^ a b c d Manning, Lucinda (2001). "Records of the League of Women Voters of Rhode Island". Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Division. revised by Kim Nusco. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ^ a b c d e f g DeSimone, Russell (11 January 2020). "Rhode Island's Two Unheralded Suffragists". Small State Big History. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ^ Gibbs, Ryan (13 August 2020). "Getty event to celebrate centennial of women's suffrage". Jamestown Press. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ^ a b Young, Bailey. "Biographical Sketch of Clara Brownell May (Mrs. Oscar) Miller". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 577.
- ^ a b c "Elizabeth Buffum Chace, Inducted 2002". Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ^ "Died". The New York Age. 1914-07-09. p. 8. Retrieved 2020-10-03 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Mary Ballou: "A Rhode Island Suffrage Pioneer"". Portsmouth History Notes. 2019-12-13. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
- ^ a b "When Gilded Suffragists Reached Out to Black Activists". Johanna Neuman. 2018-01-12. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ^ Truppi, Lily; Cottineau, Sacha. "Biographical Sketch of Mae E. Proffitt Bentley". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ^ a b c d Anthony & Harper 1902, p. 908.
- ^ Battye, Jilian; Riordan, Katherine. "Biographical Sketch of Rose Talliaferro Bradic". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ^ National American Woman Suffrage Association 1912, p. 55.
- ^ a b Anthony & Harper 1902, p. 909.
- ^ Anthony & Harper 1902, p. 907-908.
- ^ a b c d e f DeSimone, Russell (3 July 2020). "Rhode Island's Long Quest for Women's Suffrage". Small State Big History. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ^ Anthony & Harper 1902, p. 912.
- ^ a b c DeSimone, Russell J. (1 March 2015). "Celebrating Women's History Month: 10 who helped shape the Ocean State". Providence Journal. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ^ Anthony & Harper 1902, p. 918.
- ^ Ramos, Emily; Szeneitas, Sophia. "Biographical Sketch of Lucy Proffitt". Alexander Street. Retrieved 2023-03-27.
- ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 566.
- ^ Miller, Elisa. "Biographical Sketch of Louise Hall". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 – via Alexander Street.
- ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 567.
- ^ a b c "Suffrage Mass Meeting". Newport Mercury. 1917-08-03. p. 1. Retrieved 2020-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 571.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 565-566.
- ^ a b c Harper 1922, p. 574.
- ^ a b c d Anthony & Harper 1902, p. 910.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 570.
- ^ a b c Anthony & Harper 1902, p. 907.
- ^ "Salinan part of Kansas Museum of History exhibit". Salina Post. 2020-03-11. Retrieved 2024-09-15.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 568.
- ^ "Plan Greeting for Liberty Bell Party". New Castle Herald. 1915-06-30. p. 10. Retrieved 2021-03-05 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Bort, Ina (2017-04-21). "Suffrage on the Menu: The Marble House Conferences of 1909 and 1914". Behind The Scenes: New-York Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-10-01.
- ^ "For Suffrage Work". Newport Daily News. 1914-06-26. p. 7. Retrieved 2020-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Rhode Island and the 19th Amendment". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ^ DeSimone, Russell (31 March 2018). "Rhode Island Women Enter 19th Century Politics". Small State Big History. Retrieved 2020-09-28.
- ^ "Opposed to Suffrage". Newport Daily News. 1912-10-11. p. 5. Retrieved 2020-10-01 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Suffrage Timeline". Lippit House Project. Retrieved 2020-09-30.
Sources
edit- Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (1902). The History of Woman Suffrage. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
- Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: National American Woman Suffrage Association (1912). Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (Public domain ed.). The Association.
