List of Alabama suffragists

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

Groups

• Alabama Equal Suffrage Association (AESA), formed in 1912 ^[1]
• Alabama Woman Suffrage Organization (AWSO), created in 1893 ^[2]
• Coal City Equal Suffrage Association ^[3]
• Equal Suffrage League of Birmingham, formed in 1911, later called the Equal Suffrage Association of Birmingham ^{[1] [4]}
• Huntsville Equal Suffrage Association, created in 1912 ^[5]
• Huntsville League for Woman Suffrage, formed in 1894 ^[5]
• National Junior Suffrage Corps ^[6]
• Selma Suffrage Association, created on March 29, 1910 ^{[1] [4]}
• Selma Suffragette Association ^[7]
• Tuskegee Women's Club ^[8]

Suffragists

Alice Baldridge and her daughter

• Alice Baldridge (Huntsville) ^[5]
• Lillian Roden Bowron (Birmingham) ^[1]
• Virginia Tunstall Clay-Clopton ^[9]
• James Drake (Huntsville) ^[10]
• Priscilla Holmes Drake (Huntsville) ^[10]
• Scottie McKenzie Frasier (Dothan) ^[11]
• Emera Frances Griffin (Huntsville) ^{[9] [12] [13]}
• Ellen Hildreth (Decatur) ^[9]
• Frances John Hobbs (Selma) ^[14]
• Ellelee Chapman Humes (Huntsville) ^[5]
• Bossie O'Brien Hundley (Huntsville) ^[1]
• Pattie Ruffner Jacobs ^[1]
• Helen Keller (Tuscumbia) ^[12]
• Indiana Little (Birmingham). ^[15]
• Adella Hunt Logan (Tuskegee) ^[4]
• Mary Parke London (Birmingham) ^[16]
• Eugenie Marks (Mobile) ^[17]
• Elizabeth "Bessie" Moore (Coal City) ^[3]
• Mary Munson (Vinemont) ^[17]
• Nellie Kimball Murdock (Birmingham) ^[18]
• Carrie McCord Parke (Selma) ^[19]
• Mary Partridge (Selma) ^[1]
• Sally B. Powell (Montgomery) ^[17]
• Mary Howard Raiford (Selma) ^[4]
• Annie Buel Drake Robertson ^[17]
• Pearl Still (Pell City) ^[17]
• Alberta Chapman Taylor (Huntsville) ^{[9] [5]}
• Julia S. Tutwiler ^[1]
• Margaret Murray Washington (Tuskegee) ^[12]
• Mary Amelia John Watson (Selma) ^[4]
• Hattie Hooker Wilkins (Selma) ^[20]

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• Benjamin Craig (Selma) ^[19]
• Sam Will John ^[21]

Publications

• Alabama Suffrage Bulletin, published by the Alabama Equal Suffrage Association starting in October 1915 ^[22]
• The Progressive Woman, created in 1913 and edited by Frances Griffin and Juliet Cook Olin ^[23]

Suffragists who campaigned in Alabama

• Jane Addams. ^[4]
• Susan B. Anthony. ^[24]
• Belle Bennett. ^[18]
• Julia Oates Randall Bonelli. ^[25]
• Carrie Chapman Catt. ^[24]
• Margaret Foley. ^[26]
• Jean Gordon. ^[18]
• Anna Howard Shaw ^[27]

Anti-suffragists

Groups

• Alabama Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, created in 1916 ^[28]
• Alabama Woman's Anti-Ratification League (AWARL) ^[29]
• Southern Women's Anti-ratification League ^[28]

People

• John H. Bankhead ^[30]
• Marie Bankhead Owen ^{[28] [31]}
• Oscar W. Underwood ^[30]

See also

• Timeline of women's suffrage in Alabama
• Women's suffrage in Alabama
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

References

1. Rogers & Ward 2018, p. 381.
2. "Alabama Suffragists". UA Libraries Digital Exhibits. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
3. "On this day in Alabama history: Women's rights leader dies". Alabama NewsCenter. July 8, 2019. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
4. Burnes 2020, p. 35.
5. Worthy, Shalis. "The 19th Amendment and Women's Suffrage: Women's Suffrage in Huntsville". Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
6. "Junior Suffrage Corps Organized Recently". Birmingham Post-Herald. April 18, 1915. p. 26. Retrieved January 7, 2023– via Newspapers.com.
7. Burnes 2020, p. 33.
8. Worthy, Shalis. "The 19th Amendment and Women's Suffrage: Suffrage & Race in Alabama". Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
9. Rogers & Ward 2018, p. 380.
10. Worthy, Shalis. "The 19th Amendment and Women's Suffrage: Women's Suffrage in Alabama". Huntsville-Madison County Public Library. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
11. Phillips, Greg; Olliff, Marty (December 16, 2020). "It Came from the Archives: Dothan's suffragist, Scottie McKenzie Frasier". Troy Today. Retrieved November 30, 2023.
12. "Suffragists in Alabama". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved November 3, 2020.
13. "Griffin, Frances". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved July 6, 2025.
14. Burnes 2020, p. 32-33.
15. Royster, Briana Adline (2019). "Biographical Sketch of Indiana T. Little". search.alexanderstreet.com. Alexander Street. Retrieved December 8, 2021.
16. Harper 1922, p. 6.
17. Harper 1922, p. 3.
18. Thomas 1992, p. 136.
19. Burnes 2020, p. 34.
20. Burnes, Valerie Pope. "Alabama Equal Suffrage Association". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
21. Burnes 2020, p. 36.
22. "Alabama Suffrage Bulletin, newsletter of the Alabama Equal Suffrage Association". Alabama Department of Archives and History. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
23. "First Volume of The Progressive Woman, a Weekly Magazine Published in Montgomery, Alabama". Alabama Department of Archives and History. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
24. Anthony 1902, p. 465.
25. Nolan, Pamela (August 26, 2020). "CELEBRATING THE 19TH AMENDMENT The path to vote: The Alabama Story, Part 4". The Greenville Standard. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
26. "Foley, Margaret, 1875-1957. Papers of Margaret Foley, 1847-1968". Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Retrieved August 7, 2024.
27. Burnes, Valerie Pope. "Alabama Equal Suffrage Association". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved November 4, 2020.
28. Rogers & Ward 2018, p. 382.
29. "The Alabama Story". Alabama Women's Suffrage Centennial. Retrieved November 6, 2020.
30. Harper 1922, p. 8.
31. "Owen, Marie Bankhead". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Retrieved July 6, 2025.

Sources

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• Burnes, Valerie Pope (January 2020). "Will Alabama Women Vote?: The Women's Suffrage Movement in Alabama from 1890-1920" . Alabama Review. 73 (1): 28–39. doi:10.1353/ala.2020.0011. S2CID   219811342 – via Project MUSE.
• Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
• Rogers, William Warren; Ward, Robert David (2018). "Women in Alabama from 1865 to 1920". Alabama: The History of a Deep South State (Bicentennial ed.). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. pp. 376–391. ISBN   9780817391669 – via Project MUSE.
• Thomas, Mary Martha (1992). The New Woman in Alabama: Social Reforms and Suffrage, 1890-1920. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. ISBN   9780817360108.