This is a list of North Carolina suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in North Carolina.
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This is a list of North Carolina suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in North Carolina.
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The National Society Daughters of the American Revolution is a lineage-based membership service organization for women who are directly descended from a person involved in supporting the American Revolutionary War. A non-profit group, the organization promotes education and patriotism. Its membership is limited to direct lineal descendants of soldiers or others of the American Revolution era who aided the revolution and its subsequent war. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age and have a birth certificate indicating that their gender is female. DAR has over 190,000 current members in the United States and other countries. The organization's motto is "God, Home, and Country".
Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879 and remained president until her death in 1898. Her influence continued in the next decades, as the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution were adopted. Willard developed the slogan "Do Everything" for the WCTU and encouraged members to engage in a broad array of social reforms by lobbying, petitioning, preaching, publishing, and education. During her lifetime, Willard succeeded in raising the age of consent in many states as well as passing labor reforms including the eight-hour work day. Her vision also encompassed prison reform, scientific temperance instruction, Christian socialism, and the global expansion of women's rights.
Lillian Exum Clement, later known as Lillian Stafford, was an American politician who was the first woman elected to the North Carolina General Assembly and the first woman to serve in any state legislature in the Southern United States.
Julia Hurlbut (1882–1962) was an American suffragist known for her participation in the picketing of the White House by the National Woman's Party in 1917.
Adelaide Avery Claflin was an American woman suffragist and ordained minister.
Emma A. Cranmer was an American temperance reformer, woman suffragist, and author. A talented suffrage speaker and prohibition representative, she served as president of the South Dakota Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and the South Dakota Equal Suffrage Association. Some of her epigrams were published by the press. Cranmer died in 1937.
A. Viola Neblett was an American temperance activist, suffragist, and women's rights pioneer. She was an indefatigable worker for temperance in Greenville, South Carolina, and was the first woman in her state to declare herself unreservedly for woman suffrage over her own signature in the public prints. She was a notable participant in the annual convention of this Association at Atlanta in 1895, and later spent months in Washington, D.C. in the endeavor to secure the enfranchisement of women under the new constitution of South Carolina. In her last days, she planned a bequest to the National American Woman Suffrage Association. In her own town, she founded and endowed the Neblett Free Library, her home becoming Greenville's first library.
Nettie L. White was an American suffragist and pioneer stenographer in Washington, D.C. She was one of the most active and ardent woman suffragists in Washington, serving as president of the District of Columbia Woman Suffrage Association, the oldest suffrage organization in the world. White was the only woman of the three official stenographers in the United States Bureau of Pensions, and the first woman ever appointed directly to a US$1,600/year position in the government service.
Janette Hill Knox was an American temperance reformer, suffragist, teacher, author and editor. She served as President of the New Hampshire State Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
S. Grace Nicholes was an American social reformer. Like her sister, Anna E. Nicholes, she was a suffragist, a clubwoman, and a co-founder of Neighborhood House Chicago.
Jane Agnes Stewart was an American author, editor, and contributor to periodicals. She was a special writer for many journals on subjects related to woman's, religious, educational, sociological, and reform movements. Stewart was a suffragist and temperance activist. She traveled to London, Edinburgh, and Paris as a delegate of world's reform and religious conventions.
Minnie Rutherford Fuller was an American farmer, broker, temperance leader, suffragist, and lobbyist. She served as president of the Arkansas Woman's Christian Temperance Union (W.C.T.U.).
T. Adelaide Goodno was an American social reformer associated with the suffrage and a temperance movements. She served as president of the North Carolina Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
Lillian M. Mitchner was an American social reformer associated with the temperance and suffrage movements. She served as President of the Kansas State Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) for 28 years, and Superintendent of the Kansas Industrial School for Girls.
Elizabeth Bunnell Read was an American journalist and woman suffragist. Between 1861 and 1865, in Indiana, Read published The Mayflower, the only suffrage paper published during the American Civil War. She served as President of the Iowa Woman's Suffrage Society.
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