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]
• Frances Woods. ^[21]

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 (August 20, 2020). "Women's Suffrage Movement". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
2. "Arkansas Women's Suffrage Timeline". Arkansas Heritage. Retrieved December 30, 2020.
3. Rollberg, Jeanne Norton (November 24, 2020). "Arkansas Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
4. Camp, Marcia (October 23, 2020). "Bernie Babcock (1868–1962)". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
5. Dillard, Tom (November 12, 2017). "Struggle For Suffrage". Arkansas Online. Retrieved December 31, 2020.
6. Taylor 1956, p. 21.
7. Anthony 1902, p. 475.
8. "Suffragists in Arkansas". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. July 30, 2017. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
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. April 4, 2019. Retrieved May 9, 2021.
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.
21. Lindell, Lisa (Summer 2014). "A Woman of Her Time: Dr. Frances Woods and the Intersection of War, Expansionism and Equal Rights". Hilton M. Briggs Library Faculty Publications. 24: 15 – via Open Prairie.

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.