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Maud Wood Park, née Maud Wood, (born Jan. 25, 1871, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died May 8, 1955, Melrose, Mass.), American suffragist whose lobbying skills and grasp of legislative politics were successfully deployed on behalf of woman suffrage and welfare issues involving women and children. Park attended St. AgnesRead more

by Roxie Olmstead Many heroines from the suffragist movement made the right for women to vote for the first time in 1920 possible after ratification of the 19th Amendment for Equal Rights. This writing relates the story of only one of those women, Anna Kelton Wiley. Born March 8, 1877 in Oakland, California toRead more

A lifelong resident of Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to graduating from Cleveland Law School in 1912, Grossman served as a legal secretary for 16 years. In 1918, she was one of the first women to be given membership in the American Bar Association. Grossman was the treasurer of the Woman Suffrage Party of GreaterRead more

Felice Cohn was born in Carson City, Nevada and graduated from Washington Law School. Cohn was one Nevada’s first women lawyers, admitted to the bar in 1902 and began practicing law at age 18. She was admitted to the California bar in 1908 and the Supreme Court bar in 1916 as the fourth woman with […]Read more

Gertrude Weil was a lifelong resident of Goldsboro, North Carolina from a prominent family. She never married. Weil was inspired by Jewish teachings of justice and compassion to work for progressive changes such as women’s suffrage, labor reform, and civil rights. Weil worked for women’s suffrage within her stateRead more

Stokes was born in Augustova, Poland. At a young age Stokes moved with her mother to England where they lived with family in the slums. Due to the economic situation, Stokes left school at age 8 to begin working. Stokes’ family moved to Cleveland, Ohio in 1890. Stokes began working in a cigar sweatshop amongstRead more

Kohut became committed to women’s suffrage through her Jewish identity. She found that women in the Torah and Jewish women leaders of the past “were fighting the battle for the emancipation of their sex”.Read more

Maud Nathan was an advocate for women’s rights and better conditions for working women. She was born into an old, privileged New York Sephardic family and summered in Saratoga Springs, NY as a married woman. Her sister, Annie Nathan Meyer, was the founder of Barnard College. Her cousin, Benjamin Cardozo, was aRead more

Selina Solomons devoted her life to women’s suffrage and was a key player with California passing its eighth amendment that granted women the right to vote in 1911.Read more

By Cora B. Arney, Public History Consultant, Cincinnati, Ohio. Women’s Rights Journalist “Author, Traveler, Scholar.” These are the terms etched into a New Richmond, Ohio headstone to describe 19th century journalist, Eliza Archard Conner. Archard was born in 1838 in the abolitionist town of New Richmond,Read more