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
Suffragist of the Month
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 state Read more
Schneiderman was born in Savin, Poland and immigrated to the United States in 1890. Her father passed away from meningitis two years after immigrating leaving 4 children and a wife. Schneiderman began work at age 13 to help support her family by being a department store clerk and sewing caps. She assisted with Read 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 amongst Read 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 a Read 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
By Lisa Giordano of Virginia NOW A dedicated activist who helped forge change in America’s political and economic inequalities, Dr. Caroline E. Spencer was born in Philadelphia in 1861. Following her 1880 graduation from the Philadelphia Normal School for Girls with the Mrs. Hannah M. Dodd Medal of Merit, she Read more
A lifelong women’s rights advocate, author, and friend of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage was born to physician Hezekiah and Helen Leslie in Cicero, New York. The daughter of a nationally known abolitionist, she was raised in a household dedicated to eradicating slavery and grew up Read more