List of Arkansas suffragists

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

Groups

NAWSA certificate for Bernie Babcock, 1920

• Arkansas Equal Suffrage Association (AESA), organized in 1888. ^[1]
• Arkansas Federation of Women's Clubs (AFWC). ^[2]
• Arkansas Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), formed in 1881. ^[1]
• The second iteration of the Arkansas Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), created in 1914. ^[3] It was also known as the Arkansas Equal Suffrage Central Committee (AESCC). ^[3]
• Washington County Women's Suffrage Association, formed in 1915. ^[2]
• Women's Political Equality League (PEL), starts meeting in 1913. ^[2]

Suffragists

Women's suffrage delegation at the Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock, 1917

• Freda Hogan Ameringer (Huntington). ^[2]
• Bernie Babcock (Little Rock). ^[4]
• Ida Jones Brooks (Little Rock). ^[5]
• Mary Burt Brooks. ^[6]
• Haryot Holt Cahoon. ^[7]
• Hattie Wyatt Caraway. ^[8]
• Fannie L. Chunn (Little Rock). ^[9]
• Florence Brown Cotnam (Little Rock). ^[8]
• Catherine Campbell Cunningham (Little Rock). ^[6]
• Alice S. Ellington. ^[3]
• Pauline Floyd (El Dorado). ^[2]
• Minnie Rutherford Fuller (Little Rock). ^{[10] [11]}
• Lizzie Dorman Fyler (Eureka Springs). ^[1]
• Olive Gatlin Leigh. ^[12]
• Jean Vernor Jennings (Little Rock). ^[13]
• Adele Johnson (Hot Springs). ^[14]
• Mary W. Loughborough (Little Rock). ^[5]
• Josephine Miller (Little Rock). ^[15]
• James Mitchell (Little Rock). ^[16]
• Clara McDiarmid (Little Rock). ^[1]
• Adolphine Fletcher Terry (1882–1976) – author, advocate for women's suffrage, education reform and social justice in Arkansas. ^[17]
• Gertrude Watkins (Little Rock). ^{[8] [15]}

Politicians supporting women's suffrage

• E.P. Hill. ^[2]
• Miles Ledford Langley (Arkadelphia). ^[1]
• John A. Riggs (Garland County). ^[5]
• George P. Whittington (Hot Springs). ^[5]

Places

• Little Rock City Hall. ^[2]

Publications

• Woman's Chronicle. ^[1]

Suffragists campaigning in Arkansas

• Susan B. Anthony. ^[2]
• Carrie Chapman Catt. ^[2]
• Phoebe Couzins. ^[1]
• Frances A. Griffin. ^[18]
• Lide Meriwether. ^[19]
• Alice Paul. ^[2]
• Anna Howard Shaw. ^[20]
• Mabel Vernon. ^[2]

Anti-suffragists in Arkansas

People

• Walker Smith (Magnolia). ^[5]

See also

• Timeline of women's suffrage in Arkansas
• Women's suffrage in Arkansas
• Women's suffrage in states of the United States
• Women's suffrage in the United States
• Women's poll tax repeal movement

References

1. Taylor, Paula Kyzer (20 August 2020). "Women's Suffrage Movement". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
2. "Arkansas Women's Suffrage Timeline". Arkansas Heritage. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
3. Rollberg, Jeanne Norton (24 November 2020). "Arkansas Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
4. Camp, Marcia (23 October 2020). "Bernie Babcock (1868–1962)". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
5. Dillard, Tom (2017-11-12). "Struggle For Suffrage". Arkansas Online. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
6. Taylor 1956, p. 21.
7. Anthony 1902, p. 475.
8. "Suffragists in Arkansas". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. 2017-07-30. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
9. Taylor 1956, p. 22.
10. Harper 1922, p. 16.
11. Ezell, John S. (1971). "Fuller, Minnie Rutherford". In James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S. (eds.). Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 1. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 683. ISBN   0674627342.
12. Harper 1922, p. 22.
13. Ritter-Maggio, Armanda. "Biographical Sketch of Jean Vernor (Dr. Chester) Jennings". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890–1920– via Alexander Street.
14. Harper 1922, p. 18.
15. "Invaluable Out-of-Staters". History in South Dakota. 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
16. Ross 1984, p. 226.
17. Cahill, Bernadette (Winter 2012). "Stepping outside the bounds of convention: Adolphine Fletcher Terry and radical suffragism in Little Rock, 1911–1920". Pulaski County Historical Review. 60 (4): 122–129.
18. Taylor 1956, p. 26.
19. Taylor 1956, pp. 23–24.
20. Harper 1922, p. 20.

Sources

• Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
• Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
• Ross, Frances Mitchell (Autumn 1984). "James Mitchell, Spokesman for Women's Equality in Nineteenth Century Arkansas" . Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 43 (3): 222–235. doi:10.2307/40027710. JSTOR   40027710.
• Taylor, A. Elizabeth (Spring 1956). "The Woman Suffrage Movement in Arkansas" . Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 15 (1): 17–52. doi:10.2307/40027189. JSTOR   40027189.