Activism > Suffrage Archives - Page 9 of 48

Rosa L Segur

German-American suffragist

Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington

Irish political activist

Kathleen Cruise O’Brien

Irish teacher, suffragist and Irish language enthusiast

Trixie Friganza

Famous vaudeville star and suffragist, inspiration for “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”

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.

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.