List of Georgia (U.S. state) suffragists

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

Groups

Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia 1917 letterhead

• Atlanta Equal Suffrage League.[1]
• Augusta Equal Suffrage Association.[2]
• Business People's Suffrage Association.[3]
• Chatham County Branch of the Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia.[2]
• DeKalb Equal Suffrage Party.[3]
• Equal Suffrage Party of Augusta.[2]
• Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia.[4]
• Fulton Equal Suffrage Party.[3]
• Georgia Men's League for Woman Suffrage.[5]
• Georgia Woman Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1913.[5][4]
• Georgia Woman Suffrage Association (GWSA).[5]
• Georgia Young People's Suffrage Association, created in 1913.[4][6]
• Muscogee Equal Franchise League, formed in 1913.[7][4]
• National Woman's Party of Georgia, formed in 1917.[8]
• National Association of Colored Women (NACW).[9]
• Savannah Woman Suffrage Association, created in November of 1914.[2]

Suffragists

Mary Latimer McLendon in the Atlanta Constitution, 15 June 1913

• Mary Harris Armor.[10]
• Rose Ashby.[11]
• Janie Porter Barrett.[5]
• Ruth Buckholz.[3]
• Beatrice Carleton.[11]
• Beatrice Castleton (Atlanta).[8]
• Rebecca Latimer Felton.[12]
• Leonard Grossman.[5]
• Will Harben (Dalton).[13]
• Walter B. Hill (Macon).[14]
• Lugenia Burns Hope (Atlanta).[4]
• Helen Augusta Howard (Columbus).[5][15]
• Jane Judge (Savannah).[16]
• Lucy Laney (Augusta).[17]
• Adella Hunt Logan.[5]
• Emma T. Martin.[8]
• Mary Latimer McClendon (Atlanta).[18]
• Emily C. McDougald.[19]
• Mary McCurdy.[5]
• Mary Raoul Millis.[20]
• Eleanor Raoul (Atlanta).[17]
• Frances Smith Whiteside.[4]
• Mamie George S. Williams (Savannah).[21]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• Hugh Dorsey.[22]
• William J. Harris.[23]
• John L. Hopkins.[24]
• Livingston Mimms (Atlanta).[25]

Places

• De Give's Grand Opera House.[26]

Suffragists who campaigned in Georgia

• Jane Addams.[4]
• Beulah Amidon.[8]
• Susan B. Anthony.[27]
• Henry Blackwell.[28]
• Lillie Devereaux Blake.[1]
• Ida Porter Boyer.[29]
• Madeline McDowell Breckinridge.[2]
• Carrie Chapman Catt.[28]
• Jean Gordon.[29]
• Kate M. Gordon.[25]
• Josephine K. Henry.[30]
• Elsie Hill.[8]
• Solon H. Jacobs.[31]
• Belle Kearney.[32]
• Catherine Kenny.[31]
• Harriet Burton Laidlaw.[29]
• Lide A. Meriwether.[1]
• Helen Ring Robinson.[2]
• Anna Howard Shaw.[28]
• Mabel Vernon.[33]
• Elizabeth Upham Yates.[1]
• Virginia D. Young.[34]

Anti-suffragists in Georgia

Groups

• Georgia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, formed in 1914 in Macon.[4]

People

• Warren Candler.[35]
• Eugenia Dorothy Blount Lamar.[36]
• Caroline Patterson (Macon).[36]
• Mildred Lewis Rutherford.[4]
• Hoke Smith.[37]

See also

• Timeline of women's suffrage in Georgia (U.S. state)
• Women's suffrage in Georgia (U.S. state)
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States.

References

1. Taylor 1944, p. 75.
2. Taylor 1958, p. 354.
3. Taylor 1958, p. 349.
4. Eltzroth, E. Lee (5 September 2002). "Woman Suffrage". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
5. "Georgia and the 19th Amendment". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
6. Harper 1922, p. 126.
7. "Augusta Howard's Dress". The Columbus Museum. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
8. Taylor 1958, p. 348.
9. Partridge 2014, p. 10-11.
10. Harper 1922, p. 124-125.
11. Taylor 1959, p. 22.
12. Summerlin 2009, p. 61.
13. Taylor 1944, p. 67.
14. Taylor 1944, p. 67-68.
15. Pirani, Fiza (17 August 2020). "An unfinished movement: Reflecting on 100 years of women's suffrage in Georgia". AJC. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
16. Landers, Lisa (2019-12-05). "Collection Highlights: Anna Howard Shaw and the Woman's Committee for War Work". Georgia History Festival. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
17. "Suffragists in Georgia". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
18. Pirani, Fiza (16 August 2020). "Remembering suffragettes with Georgia ties as 19th Amendment turns 100". AJC. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
19. Taylor 1959, p. 19-20.
20. Summerlin 2009, p. 92.
21. Landers, Lisa (2019-11-21). "Collection Highlights: Program from the third Annual Meeting of the Savannah Federation of Negro Women's Clubs". Georgia History Festival. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
22. Summerlin 2009, p. 111.
23. Summerlin 2009, p. 109.
24. Harper 1922, p. 125.
25. Harper 1922, p. 122.
26. Summerlin 2009, p. 32.
27. K.M.M. (March 1895). "Visit From Susan B. Anthony". The Bulletin of Atlanta University (63). pp. 3–4. Retrieved 16 October 2020 – via HBCU Library Alliance.
28. Summerlin 2009, p. 35.
29. Taylor 1958, p. 350.
30. Taylor 1944, p. 76.
31. Taylor 1958, p. 352.
32. Taylor 1958, p. 342.
33. Taylor 1959, p. 24.
34. Taylor 1958, p. 340.
35. Summerlin 2009, p. 44.
36. Summerlin 2009, p. 70.
37. Summerlin 2009, p. 108.

Sources

• Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
• Partridge, Brittany (2014). Georgia Women and Their Struggle for the Vote (Thesis). Georgia Southern University.
• Summerlin, Elizabeth Stephens (2009). 'Not Ratified But Hereby Rejected': The Women's Suffrage Movement in Georgia, 1895-1925 (PDF) (Master of Arts thesis). The University of Georgia.
• Taylor, A. Elizabeth (June 1944). "The Origin of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Georgia". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 28 (2): 63–79. JSTOR 40576929 – via JSTOR.
• Taylor, A. Elizabeth (December 1958). "Revival and Development of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Georgia". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 42 (4): 339–354. JSTOR 40578025 – via JSTOR.
• Taylor, A. Elizabeth (March 1959). "The Last Phase of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Georgia". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 43 (1): 11–28. JSTOR 40577919 – via JSTOR.

External links

• Today in Georgia history