Trixie Friganza
Famous vaudeville star and suffragist, inspiration for “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”
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Cornelia Foster Bradford
Cornelia Foster Bradford established the Whittier House, the first settlement house in New Jersey and a Jersey City social establishment, in 1894.
Florence Peshine Eagleton
New Jersey leader in the woman suffrage movement and an advocate for women’s higher education.
Lena Morrow Lewis
Alaska’s male-dominated government passed women’s suffrage, but female leaders organized and lobbied to make voting rights a reality. Lena Morrow Lewis traveled around Alaska in the 1910s and spoke to large audiences in Fairbanks, Valdez, and Juneau about voting rights and other social reform issues.
Lillian Ford Feickert
Lillian Ford Feickert was president of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association from 1912-1920.
Harriet Lafetra
New Jersey suffragist
Ida Mae Thompson
Ida Mae Thompson was an important figure in Virginia’s woman suffrage movement. First as a member of the Equal Suffrage League, the organization that led the effort to win women the right to vote, and then as a member of the League of Women Voters, Thompson collected and preserved the movement’s history.
Sophie Gooding Rose Meredith
Sophie Gooding Rose Meredith was a leader in the Virginia woman suffrage movement, cofounding Virginia branches of two national suffrage organizations.
Flora Díaz Parrado
Cuban lawyer and women’s rights activist
Nina Allender
Nina Allender was a feminist, a suffragist, and an artist with a shrewd sense of humor and an innovative perspective on women. Her drawings changed the course of one of the most important civil rights movements in the history of the United States.