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

As to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, I think, if anything, the history of the suffragist movement shows that you can make alliances with people, but you do not compromise on basic human rights.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025

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

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2025

Jenn Colella plays Carrie Chapman Catt, an old-guard suffragist who clashed with the younger Paul over tactics and timing.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 17, 2024

And for five years we have stood waiting….Not as idle spectators, but as the busiest and most unwearied actors,” wrote suffragist Frances Dana Barker Gage in a letter to the Anti-Slavery Standard, an abolitionist newspaper.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling