suffragist

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Ms. Gray is the author of “Nellie McClung,” a biography of Canada’s best known suffragist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Consider the Haitian Revolution, American abolitionist movement, and suffragist campaigns: history shows that morally expansive recognition of rights, even to beings considered “property,” often aligns with broader human liberation.

From Salon • May 17, 2025

The family and Perkins shared a mutual contact: reformer and suffragist Gertrude Ely, of Pennsylvania.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2025

A long line of queer women — from Susan B. Anthony to Jeanne Córdova to Kitty Cone — have played pivotal roles in the suffragist, feminist, women’s rights, disability rights and reproductive rights movements.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2024

Everywhere the train stopped—Charleston, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, and many other places, ending in New York—enormous rallies were held, featuring speeches by veteran suffragist activists, each one dressed in prison garb.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler