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.