List of Alaska suffragists

This is a list of Alaska suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in the U.S. territory, and later state, of Alaska.

Groups

Alaska Native Sisterhood in Douglas, Alaska, November 19, 1921

• Alaska Native Brotherhood, formed in 1912. ^[1]
• Alaska Native Sisterhood, formed in 1915. ^[1]
• National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). ^[2]
• Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). ^[3]

Suffragists and other voting rights advocates

• Ada Brownell (Seward). ^[4]
• Ida E. Green (Seward). ^[4]
• Margaret Keenan Harrais (Skagway). ^[5]
• Cornelia Templeton Hatcher (Knik). ^{[3] [5]}
• Milo Kelly (Knik). ^[4]
• Emma Lefevre (Skagway). ^[5]
• Lena Morrow Lewis (Fairbanks). ^{[6] [5]}
• Clara Michener (Ketchikan). ^[5]
• Francis Turner Pedersen (Seward). ^[4]
• Harriet Pullen (Skagway). ^[7]
• Lucy Record Spaeth (Ketchikan). ^[5]
• Arthur G. Stroup (Sitka). ^[2]
• Lulu Thompson (Juneau). ^[5]

Indigenous voting rights activists

• Tillie Paul (Tlingit). ^[8]
• William Paul (Tlingit). ^[9]

See also

• Timeline of women's suffrage in Alaska
• Women's suffrage in Alaska
• Native Americans and women's suffrage in the United States
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States

References

1. Sostaric, Katarina (October 12, 2015). "Alaska Native Sisterhood celebrates 100th anniversary in Wrangell". KTOO. Retrieved November 8, 2020.
2. Harper 1922, p. 713.
3. Lapka, Alyssa (March 13, 2019). "The Life of Cornelia Templeton Jewett Hatcher". Alaska Historical Society. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
4. Beeton, Beverly; Parham, R. Bruce (July 2020). "Votes for Women, Woman Suffrage in Alaska: A Resource List". Alaska Historical Society. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
5. Carney, Amy. "Alaska's Suffrage Star: Home". Alaska Libraries, Archives, Museums. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
6. "Lena Morrow Lewis". Alaska Women's Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on November 16, 2020. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
7. Spude 2015, p. 223-224.
8. "Tillie Paul Tamaree & the Tlingit Community". Presbyterian Historical Society. September 17, 2020. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
9. Cole 1992, p. 432.

Sources

• Cole, Terrence M. (November 1992). "Jim Crow in Alaska: The Passage of the Alaska Equal Rights Act" . Western Historical Quarterly. 23 (4): 429–449. doi:10.2307/970301. JSTOR   970301. S2CID   163528642.
• Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
• Spude, Catharine Holder (2015). Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN   9780806149974.