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Advocate who Picketed for Women’s Voting Rights By Kathleen Bowen Simons November 19, 2021 Although my little sister and I called her Aunt Mary, Mary Elizabeth Donegan was our great aunt, the sister of our grandmother. Mary was born on April 18, 1895 in Washington, D.C. She had four siblings who survived pastRead more

By Edith P. Mayo, Curator Emerita of the Smithsonian Museum of American History Phoebe Apperson Hearst played a major role in the suffrage movement as one of its financiers. At the turn of the 20th century, Hearst was one of the best known and most revered women in the nation.  Today, her name is barely […]Read more

By Edith P. Mayo, Curator Emerita of the Smithsonian Museum of American History Alva Belmont, often referred to as Mrs. O.H. P. Belmont (1853-1933), was the most important financier of the militant wing of the suffrage movement in the United States.  She largely financed the Congressional Union (while stillRead more

By Dr. C Elisabeth Palmer Johnson, Turning Point Suffragist Memorial Honorary Board Nellie May Quander, a native of Washington, DC, was the descendant of two prominent free Black Virginia families who had been enslaved by George Washington. Her parents were John Pierson Quander and Hannah Bruce Ford Quander. HerRead more

By Edith Mayo, for the Turning Point Suffragist website African American Women Leaders in the Suffrage Movement Terrell was a writer, educator, suffragist, and civil rights activist as well as a prime mover among Black women suffragists and clubwomen of the 20th century.  She was the daughter of a millionaireRead more