List of Arkansas suffragists

This is a list of Arkansas suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Arkansas.

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## Groups

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NAWSA certificate for Bernie Babcock, 1920

* Arkansas Equal Suffrage Association (AESA), organized in 1888.[1]
* Arkansas Federation of Women's Clubs (AFWC).[2]
* Arkansas Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), formed in 1881.[1]
* The second iteration of the Arkansas Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), created in 1914.[3] It was also known as the Arkansas Equal Suffrage Central Committee (AESCC).[3]
* Washington County Women's Suffrage Association, formed in 1915.[2]
* Women's Political Equality League (PEL), starts meeting in 1913.[2]

## Suffragists

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Women's suffrage delegation at the Arkansas State Capitol in Little Rock, 1917

* Freda Hogan Ameringer (Huntington).[2]
* Bernie Babcock (Little Rock).[4]
* Ida Jones Brooks (Little Rock).[5]
* Mary Burt Brooks.[6]
* Haryot Holt Cahoon.[7]
* Hattie Wyatt Caraway.[8]
* Fannie L. Chunn (Little Rock).[9]
* Florence Brown Cotnam (Little Rock).[8]
* Catherine Campbell Cunningham (Little Rock).[6]
* Alice S. Ellington.[3]
* Pauline Floyd (El Dorado).[2]
* Minnie Rutherford Fuller (Little Rock).[10][11]
* Lizzie Dorman Fyler (Eureka Springs).[1]
* Olive Gatlin Leigh.[12]
* Jean Vernor Jennings (Little Rock).[13]
* Adele Johnson (Hot Springs).[14]
* Mary W. Loughborough (Little Rock).[5]
* Josephine Miller (Little Rock).[15]
* James Mitchell (Little Rock).[16]
* Clara McDiarmid (Little Rock).[1]
* Gertrude Watkins (Little Rock).[8][15]

### Politicians supporting women's suffrage

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* E.P. Hill.[2]
* Miles Ledford Langley (Arkadelphia).[1]
* John A. Riggs (Garland County).[5]
* George P. Whittington (Hot Springs).[5]

## Places

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* Little Rock City Hall.[2]

## Publications

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* Woman's Chronicle.[1]

## Suffragists campaigning in Arkansas

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* Susan B. Anthony.[2]
* Carrie Chapman Catt.[2]
* Phoebe Couzins.[1]
* Frances A. Griffin.[17]
* Lide Meriwether.[18]
* Alice Paul.[2]
* Anna Howard Shaw.[19]
* Mabel Vernon.[2]

## Anti-suffragists in Arkansas

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People

* Walker Smith (Magnolia).[5]

## See also

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* Timeline of women's suffrage in Arkansas
* Women's suffrage in Arkansas
* Women's suffrage in states of the United States
* Women's suffrage in the United States
* Women's poll tax repeal movement

## References

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1. ^ a b c d e f g Taylor, Paula Kyzer (20 August 2020). "Women's Suffrage Movement". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Arkansas Women's Suffrage Timeline". Arkansas Heritage. Retrieved 2020-12-30.
3. ^ a b c Rollberg, Jeanne Norton (24 November 2020). "Arkansas Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
4. ^ Camp, Marcia (23 October 2020). "Bernie Babcock (1868–1962)". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
5. ^ a b c d e Dillard, Tom (2017-11-12). "Struggle For Suffrage". Arkansas Online. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
6. ^ a b Taylor 1956, p. 21.
7. ^ Anthony 1902, p. 475.
8. ^ a b c "Suffragists in Arkansas". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. 2017-07-30. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
9. ^ Taylor 1956, p. 22.
10. ^ Harper 1922, p. 16.
11. ^ Ezell, John S. (1971). "Fuller, Minnie Rutherford". In James, Edward T.; James, Janet Wilson; Boyer, Paul S. (eds.). Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 1\. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 683\. ISBN 0674627342.
12. ^ Harper 1922, p. 22.
13. ^ Ritter-Maggio, Armanda. "Biographical Sketch of Jean Vernor (Dr. Chester) Jennings". Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920 - via Alexander Street.
14. ^ Harper 1922, p. 18.
15. ^ a b "Invaluable Out-of-Staters". History in South Dakota. 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2021-05-09.
16. ^ Ross 1984, p. 226.
17. ^ Taylor 1956, p. 26.
18. ^ Taylor 1956, p. 23-24.
19. ^ Harper 1922, p. 20.

### Sources

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* Anthony, Susan B. (1902). Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (eds.). The History of Woman Suffrage. Vol. 4\. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press.
* Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
* Ross, Frances Mitchell (Autumn 1984). "James Mitchell, Spokesman for Women's Equality in Nineteenth Century Arkansas". Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 43 (3): 222–235. doi:10.2307/40027710. JSTOR 40027710 - via JSTOR.
* Taylor, A. Elizabeth (Spring 1956). "The Woman Suffrage Movement in Arkansas". Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 15 (1): 17–52. doi:10.2307/40027189. JSTOR 40027189 - via JSTOR.