Suffragists

Janie Porter Barrett

Josephine Bruce

Nannie Helen Burroughs

Mary Ann Shadd Cary

Coralie Franklin Cook

Anna J. Cooper

Mamie Dillard

Charlotte Vandine Forten, Sr.

Margaretta Forten

Charlotte Forten Grimke

Angelina Weld Grimke

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Lugenia Burns Hope

Carrie S. Horton – Wisconsin and Illinois

Mary E. Jackson

Mrs. R. Jerome Jeffery

Verina Morten Jones

Lucy Laney

Carrie Langston

Adella Hunt Logan

Victoria Earle Matthews

Mary McCurdy

Mrs. I.L. Moorman

Gertrude Bustill Mossell

Harriet (Hattie) Purvis, Jr.

Harriet Forten Purvis

Sarah Remond

Charlotta (Lottie) Rollin

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin

Mary Talbert

Naomi Talbert (Anderson)

Mary Church Terrell

Sojourner Truth

Margaret Murray Washington

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Frances (Fannie) Barrier Williams

Sources:

Hine, D.C., King, W., & Reed, L. (Eds.). (1995). “We Specialize in the Wholley Impossible”:  A Reader in Black Women’s History. Brooklyn: New York.

Mayo, E.  (n.d.) African American Women Leaders in the Suffrage Movement. Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Association. Retrieved from https://suffragistmemorial.org/african-american-women-leaders-in-the-suffrage-movement/

Terborg-Penn, R. (1998). African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote: 1850-1920. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.