List of Alaska suffragists

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

Groups

Alaska Native Sisterhood in Douglas, Alaska November 19, 1921

• Alaska Native Brotherhood, formed in 1912.[1]
• Alaska Native Sisterhood, formed in 1915.[1]
• National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).[2]
• Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).[3]

Suffragists and other voting rights advocates

• Ada Brownell (Seward).[4]
• Ida E. Green (Seward).[4]
• Margaret Keenan Harrais (Skagway).[5]
• Cornelia Templeton Hatcher (Knik).[3][5]
• Milo Kelly (Knik).[6]
• Emma Lefevre (Skagway).[5]
• Lena Morrow Lewis (Fairbanks).[7][5]
• Clara Michener (Ketchikan).[5]
• Francis Turner Pedersen (Seward).[4]
• Harriet Pullen (Skagway).[8]
• Lucy Record Spaeth (Ketchikan).[5]
• Arthur G. Stroup (Sitka).[2]
• Lulu Thompson (Juneau).[5]

Indigenous voting rights activists

• Tillie Paul (Tlingit).[9]
• William Paul (Tlingit).[10]

See also

• Timeline of women's suffrage in Alaska
• Women's suffrage in Alaska
• Native Americans and women's suffrage in the United States
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

References

1. Sostaric, Katarina (2015-10-12). "Alaska Native Sisterhood celebrates 100th anniversary in Wrangell". KTOO. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
2. Harper 1922, p. 713.
3. Lapka, Alyssa (13 March 2019). "The Life of Cornelia Templeton Jewett Hatcher". Alaska Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
4. Beeton, Beverly; Parham, R. Bruce (July 2020). "Votes for Women, Woman Suffrage in Alaska: A Resource List". Alaska Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
5. Carney, Amy. "Alaska's Suffrage Star: Home". Alaska Libraries, Archives, Museums. Retrieved 2020-11-12.
6. Beeton, Beverly; Parham, R. Bruce (July 2020). "Votes for Women, Woman Suffrage in Alaska: A Resource List". Alaska Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
7. "Lena Morrow Lewis". Alaska Women's Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
8. Spude 2015, p. 223-224.
9. "Tillie Paul Tamaree & the Tlingit Community". Presbyterian Historical Society. 17 September 2020. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
10. Cole 1992, p. 432.

Sources

• Cole, Terrence M. (November 1992). "Jim Crow in Alaska: The Passage of the Alaska Equal Rights Act". Western Historical Quarterly. 23 (4): 429–449. doi:10.2307/970301. JSTOR 970301 – via JSTOR.
• Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
• Spude, Catharine Holder (2015). Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806149974.