This is a list of Oklahoma suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Oklahoma.
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This is a list of Oklahoma suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Oklahoma.
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Inez Milholland Boissevain was a leading American suffragist, lawyer, and peace activist.
Anna Maria Mozzoni is commonly held as the founder of the woman's movement in Italy. One of the roles she is most known for is her pivotal involvement in gaining women's suffrage in Italy.
Women's suffrage was an important political issue in the late-nineteenth-century New Zealand. In early colonial New Zealand, as in European societies, women were excluded from any involvement in politics. Public opinion began to change in the latter half of the nineteenth century and after years of effort by women's suffrage campaigners, led by Kate Sheppard, New Zealand became the first nation in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
Anna Gillies Macdonald Munro was an active campaigner for temperance and the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. Munro organised and was the secretary of the Women's Freedom League campaigning in Scotland. She settled in Thatcham after the First World War but was living in Aldermaston by 1933 and died in Padworth, Berkshire in 1962. She had affordable housing named after her in Thatcham.
Emily Susan Ford (1850–1930) was an English artist and campaigner for women's rights. She was born into a Quaker family in Leeds, and trained as an artist at the Slade School of Art and exhibited at the Royal Academy.
Iris Calderhead was an American suffragist and organizer in the National Woman's Party. She earned an A.B. in English from the University of Kansas in 1910 and completed a graduate degree at Bryn Mawr College in 1913. She was the daughter of William A. Calderhead, the congressional representative for Kansas' 5th District from 1895 to 1911.
The Hunger Strike Medal was a silver medal awarded between August 1909 and 1914 to suffragette prisoners by the leadership of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU). During their imprisonment, they went on hunger strike while serving their sentences in the prisons of the United Kingdom for acts of militancy in their campaign for women's suffrage. Many women were force-fed and their individual medals were created to reflect this.
Kate Himrod Biggers (1849–1935) was an American suffragist. She served as president of the Oklahoma Woman's Suffrage Association.
The term Freedmen refers to descendants of people of African American descent who were enslaved by the Five Civilized Tribes.
Winifred Estelle Branstetter was an American suffragette, writer, and Socialist Party of America politician. Branstetter organized for the Socialist Party of America in Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Illinois, serving as the first Secretary of the Socialist Party of New Mexico.
Elizabeth Fulton Hester was an American missionary, Confederate States of America nurse, and early suffragette who was active in Indian Territory and later the U.S. state of Oklahoma.
Abbie B. Rich Hillerman was an American suffragette and prohibitionist active in Oklahoma Territory and later Oklahoma. She was known as the "Mother of Prohibition" in Oklahoma.
Edith Cherry Johnson was an American journalist who was the society editor for The Daily Oklahoman between 1908 and 1958. For her journalism she was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1935 and posthumously inducted into the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 1997.
Walter Ferguson was an American politician, newspaper owner, and banker who served in the Oklahoma Senate between 1917 and 1919.
Lucia Loomis was an American suffragist and journalist from the U.S. state of Oklahoma.