Women's Suffrage

By sarandrws46

  • Sojourner Truth

    Sojourner Truth
    Abolitionist and women's rights activist. Known for her speech titled, "Ain't I a Woman".

  • Jennie Collins

    Jennie Collins
    Opened Boffin's Bower: a clubhouse for working women. The Bower provided food and clothing to the needy, and temporary lodging to a small number of homeless women. Collins helped hundreds of women find employment each year

  • Clara Shortridge Foltz

    Clara Shortridge Foltz
    Wrote the Women Lawyer's Bill that allowed women to practice law. She was the first woman to pass the California Bar.

  • Matilda J. Gage

    Matilda J. Gage
    Advocated for the separation of church and state by forming the Women's National Liberal Union.

  • Annie Smith Peck

    Annie Smith Peck
    Climbed Mt. Coropuna in Peru and planted a "Votes for Women" banner.

  • Alice Paul

    Alice Paul
    Formed the National Woman's Party.

  • Ida B. Wells

    Ida B. Wells
    Helped create the NAACP.

  • Nina Allender

    Nina Allender
    Suffrage artist who created positive suffrage images. She helped changed the public opinion of women.

  • Katherine Martha Houghton Hepburn

    Katherine Martha Houghton Hepburn
    Founded American Birth Control League, which eventually became Planned Parenthood

  • Nellie Griswold Francis

    Nellie Griswold Francis
    Activist who founded dozens of organizations and wrote an anti-lynching bill that became MN law in 1921.