Suffragist

By the end of World War I, a handful of elite Anglo-Jewish women had gradually broken down barriers of religion, class, and culture to achieve leadership positions in English suffragist organizations and to simultaneously create the Jewish League for Woman Suffrage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The suffragist is a true product of our era of liberty. ❋ Rafael Palma (1906)

The suffragist was the landed proprietor, and in every county where his possessions were this right attached. ❋ Sparks, William H (1870)

(Incidentally, the correct term is "suffragist," not suffragette. ❋ Unknown (1995)

Maude Miner, a leading feminist and suffragist and director of the Waverly House for Women, a reformatory in New York City, claimed that one-quarter of prostitutes under her tutelage acquired their attitudes and behaviors from “some actively vicious element or clearly degenerate strain, drunkenness or prostitution.” ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

Jane had heard the Vassar suffragist say that during the shirtwaist strike, back when Jane was just a foolish rich girl in a frilly dress. ❋ Margaret Peterson Haddix (2011)

While there he appeared at suffrage functions with Charlotte Perkins Gilman (whom he knew when she lived in the Bay area) and Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, the most radical suffragist in the country (and multi-millionaire who underwrote what would become the National Women's Party). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Nonetheless, in this period of increasing suffragist protests, women in England were powerful and influential on a public scale. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With money saved from landscape design and a loan from her mother, suffragist Fay Davidson, Selma was able to purchase and mortgage the $80,000 property. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The resistance of the defendants was in the spirit of the civil rights movement, the labor movement, the suffragist movement, the abolition of slavery movement. ❋ Bill Quigley (2011)

The strikers fought off company thugs and corrupt cops with support from fledgling labor organizations, Jewish social service organizations, Lower East Side socialist clubs, women's groups, and the occasional progressive multimillionaire, like the suffragist socialite Alva Belmont. ❋ Eric Alterman (2011)

A well-regarded novelist and playwright born to one of America's oldest Jewish families, Meyer was the sister of a prominent suffragist. ❋ Harry Stein (2011)

"Smithsonian Snapshot" continues rumaging through the millions of Smithsonian artifacts this week with a look at a suffragist's sash. ❋ Unknown (2011)

At the time, Nancy was the only MP who did not come from a suffragist background. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Most people recognize her as a champion of women's rights and a suffragist leader. ❋ Melinda J. Rising (2011)

My favorite suffragist and champion, however, is Matilda Joslyn Gage, born on March 24,and author of Woman, Church, and State which exposed and challenged patriarchies and misogynists in the nineteenth century. ❋ Melinda J. Rising (2011)

[I am not] an [Activist] I am a [suffragist]. ❋ Harlequin Quinzell (2022)