List of African American suffragists

This is a list of African American suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in United States.

Groups

• Afro-American Protective Association (Iowa).
• Alpha Suffrage Club (Illinois).
• American Woman Suffrage Association.
• Colored Women's Equal Suffrage Club (Oregon).
• Colored Women's Independent Political League (Ohio).
• Colored Women's Suffrage Club of New York.
• Colored Women's Suffrage Club (Maryland).
• Colored Women's Voting Club in Roanoke (Virginia).
• Des Moines League of Colored Women Voters, formed in 1912 (Iowa).
• El Paso Negro Woman's Civic and Enfranchisement League, started in 1918 (Texas).
• Federated Colored Women's Clubs.
• Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.
• Los Angeles Forum of Colored Women.
• Lucy Stone Woman Suffrage League (Pennsylvania).
• National Association of Colored Women's Clubs.
• New Jersey State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (NJSFCWC).
• Philadelphia Suffrage Association, founded in 1866 with interracial membership.
• Progressive Women's Suffrage Club (Baltimore, Maryland), (also known as the Colored Women's Suffrage Club).
• Suffrage Study Club (Wilmington, Delaware).
• Tuskegee Women's Club (Alabama).

Suffragists

A

• Christia Adair (Texas).
• Osceola Macarthy Adams.
• Sadie Lewis Adams (Illinois).
• Teresa Adams (Iowa).
• Winona Cargile Alexander.
• Susan E. Allen (Illinois).
• Eliza Anderson.
• Naomi Anderson.
• Libbie C. Anthony (Missouri).
• Blanche Armwood (Florida).

B

• Alice Gertrude Baldwin (Delaware).
• Maria Louise Baldwin (Massachusetts).
• Janie Porter Barrett (Virginia).
• Laura Beasley (Illinois).
• Mary Beatty (Mississippi and Oregon).
• Ida M. Bowman Becks.
• Mae E. Profitt Bentley (Rhode Island).
• Ella G. Berry (Illinois).
• Mary V. Berry (Washington, D.C.).
• Kizziah J. Bills (Illinois).
• Ethel Cuff Black.
• Irene Moorman Blackstone (New York).
• Annie Walker Blackwell (Pennsylvania).
• Bonnie Thomas Bogle (Oregon).
• Rosa Dixon Bowser (Virginia).
• Rose Talliaferro Bradic (Rhode Island).
• Minnie L. Bradley (Connecticut).
• Louise Beatrice Braxton (Maryland).
• Hallie Quinn Brown (Ohio).
• Ida E. Duckett Brown (New Jersey).
• Solomon G. Brown.
• Josephine Beall Willson Bruce.
• Eva Carter Buckner (California).
• Mary E. Cary Burrell (New Jersey).
• Nannie Helen Burroughs.
• Louisa C. Hatton Crawford Butler (Washington, D.C.).
• Marian D. Butler (Washington, D.C.).

C

• Bertha Pitts Campbell.
• Susan E. Cannon Allen (Illinois).
• Jeannette Carter (Washington, D.C.).
• Augusta Theodosia Lewis Chissell (Maryland).
• Helen E. Christian (New York).
• Mary C. Clarke (Illinois).
• Carrie Williams Clifford (Ohio).
• Mattie E. Coleman (Tennessee).
• Maude B. Deering Coleman (Washington, Pennsylvania).
• Coralie Franklin Cook.
• Helen Appo Cook (Washington, D.C.).
• Anna J. Cooper.
• Fannie Wilson Cooper (Iowa).
• Henrietta Green Crawford (New Jersey).
• Ida R. Cummings (Maryland).
• Ella Cunningham (New York).
• Helen M. Curtis (New York).

D

• Ida Clark DePriest (Colorado).
• Addie Whiteman Dickerson (Pennsylvania).
• Mamie Dillard (Kansas).
• Julia Dorsey.
• Frederick Douglass.
• Virginia Hewlett Douglass.

E

• Mary E. Eato (New York).
• Elizabeth Piper Ensley.

F

• Charlotte Vandine Forten.
• Margaretta Forten (Pennsylvania).
• Nellie Griswold Francis (Minnesota).

G

• Sarah J. S. Garnet (New York).
• Irene W. Griffin (Louisiana).
• Charlotte Forten Grimké.
• Angelina Weld Grimké.

H

• Victoria Clay Haley (Missouri).
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
• Lugenia Burns Hope (Georgia).
• Addie Waites Hunton (New York).

J

• Mary E. Jackson (Rhode Island).
• Lottie Wilson Jackson (Michigan}.
• Anna Louise James (Connecticut).
• Hester C. Jeffrey (New York).
• Harriet C. Johnson {Pennsylvania).
• Mary Jane Richardson Jones (Illinois).
• Verina Morton Jones (New York).

L

• Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin (Pennsylvania).
• Lucy Craft Laney (Georgia).
• Indiana Little (Alabama).
• Adella Hunt Logan (Alabama).

M

• Victoria Earle Matthews (New York).
• Mary A. McCurdy (Indiana).
• Rosa Moorman (Ohio).
• Gertrude Bustill Mossell (Pennsylvania).

P

• Millie Lawson Bethell Paxton (Virginia).
• Ora Brown Stokes Perry (Virginia).
• Juno Frankie Pierce (Tennessee).
• Alice Sampson Presto (Washington).
• Lucy Proffitt (Rhode Island).
• Harriet Forten Purvis (Pennsylvania).
• Harriet Purvis Jr. (Pennsylvania).

R

• Harriet Redmond (Oregon).
• Sarah Parker Remond.
• Naomi Sewell Richardson.
• Florida Ruffin Ridley (Massachusetts).
• Ruth Logan Roberts (New York).
• Charlotte Rollin (South Carolina).
• Carrie Barnes Ross (Indiana).
• Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (Massachusetts).

S

• Maude Sampson (Texas).
• Mary Townsend Seymour (Connecticut).
• Mary Ann Shadd.
• Eliza Pearl Shippen.
• Lydia C. Smith (New York).
• Rosetta Douglass Sprague.

T

• Mary Burnett Talbert (New York).
• Mary Church Terrell.
• Beatrice Sumner Thompson (California).
• Sojourner Truth.
• Harriet Tubman.

W

• Margaret Murray Washington (Alabama).
• Alice L. Thompson Waytes (Massachusetts).
• Ida B. Wells (Illinois).
• Madree Penn White.
• Caroline B. Williams.
• Fannie Barrier Williams.
• Carrie Whalon.

Y

• Estelle Hall Young (Maryland).

See also

• African-American women's suffrage movement
• List of American suffragists
• Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

References

Sources

External links

• Black suffragists