List of Georgia (U.S. state) suffragists

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

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2020)

|

## Contents

* 1 Groups
* 2 Suffragists
* 2.1 Politicians supporting women's suffrage
* 3 Places
* 4 Suffragists who campaigned in Georgia
* 5 Anti-suffragists in Georgia
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 7.1 Sources
* 8 External links

## Groups[edit]

Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia 1917 letterhead

* Atlanta Equal Suffrage League.[1]
* Augusta Equal Suffrage Association.[2]
* Business People's Suffrage Association.[3]
* Chatham County Branch of the Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia.[2]
* DeKalb Equal Suffrage Party.[3]
* Equal Suffrage Party of Augusta.[2]
* Equal Suffrage Party of Georgia.[4]
* Fulton Equal Suffrage Party.[3]
* Georgia Men's League for Woman Suffrage.[5]
* Georgia Woman Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1913.[5][4]
* Georgia Woman Suffrage Association (GWSA).[5]
* Georgia Young People's Suffrage Association, created in 1913.[4][6]
* Muscogee Equal Franchise League, formed in 1913.[7][4]
* National Woman's Party of Georgia, formed in 1917.[8]
* National Association of Colored Women (NACW).[9]
* Savannah Woman Suffrage Association, created in November 1914.[2]

## Suffragists[edit]

Mary Latimer McLendon in the Atlanta Constitution, 15 June 1913

* Mary Harris Armor.[10]
* Rose Ashby.[11]
* Janie Porter Barrett.[5]
* Ruth Buckholz.[3]
* Beatrice Carleton.[11]
* Beatrice Castleton (Atlanta).[8]
* Rebecca Latimer Felton.[12]
* Leonard Grossman.[5]
* Will Harben (Dalton).[13]
* Walter B. Hill (Macon).[14]
* Lugenia Burns Hope (Atlanta).[4]
* Helen Augusta Howard (Columbus).[5][15]
* Jane Judge (Savannah).[16]
* Lucy Laney (Augusta).[17]
* Adella Hunt Logan.[5]
* Emma T. Martin.[8]
* Mary Latimer McClendon (Atlanta).[18]
* Emily C. McDougald.[19]
* Mary McCurdy.[5]
* Mary Raoul Millis.[20]
* Eleanor Raoul (Atlanta).[17]
* Frances Smith Whiteside.[4]
* Mamie George S. Williams (Savannah).[21]

### Politicians supporting women's suffrage[edit]

* Hugh Dorsey.[22]
* William J. Harris.[23]
* John L. Hopkins.[24]
* Livingston Mimms (Atlanta).[25]

## Places[edit]

* De Give's Grand Opera House.[26]

## Suffragists who campaigned in Georgia[edit]

* Jane Addams.[4]
* Beulah Amidon.[8]
* Susan B. Anthony.[27]
* Henry Blackwell.[28]
* Lillie Devereaux Blake.[1]
* Ida Porter Boyer.[29]
* Madeline McDowell Breckinridge.[2]
* Carrie Chapman Catt.[28]
* Jean Gordon.[29]
* Kate M. Gordon.[25]
* Josephine K. Henry.[30]
* Elsie Hill.[8]
* Solon H. Jacobs.[31]
* Belle Kearney.[32]
* Catherine Kenny.[31]
* Harriet Burton Laidlaw.[29]
* Lide A. Meriwether.[1]
* Helen Ring Robinson.[2]
* Anna Howard Shaw.[28]
* Mabel Vernon.[33]
* Elizabeth Upham Yates.[1]
* Virginia D. Young.[34]

## Anti-suffragists in Georgia[edit]

Groups

* Georgia Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage, formed in 1914 in Macon.[4]

People

* Warren Candler.[35]
* Eugenia Dorothy Blount Lamar.[36]
* Caroline Patterson (Macon).[36]
* Mildred Lewis Rutherford.[4]
* Hoke Smith.[37]

## See also[edit]

* Timeline of women's suffrage in Georgia (U.S. state)
* Women's suffrage in Georgia (U.S. state)
* Women's suffrage in states of the United States
* Women's suffrage in the United States.

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c d Taylor 1944, p. 75.
2. ^ a b c d e f Taylor 1958, p. 354.
3. ^ a b c d Taylor 1958, p. 349.
4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Eltzroth, E. Lee (5 September 2002). "Woman Suffrage". New Georgia Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
5. ^ a b c d e f g h "Georgia and the 19th Amendment". U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
6. ^ Harper 1922, p. 126.
7. ^ "Augusta Howard's Dress". The Columbus Museum. Retrieved 18 October 2020.
8. ^ a b c d e Taylor 1958, p. 348.
9. ^ Partridge 2014, p. 10-11.
10. ^ Harper 1922, p. 124-125.
11. ^ a b Taylor 1959, p. 22.
12. ^ Summerlin 2009, p. 61.
13. ^ Taylor 1944, p. 67.
14. ^ Taylor 1944, p. 67-68.
15. ^ Pirani, Fiza (17 August 2020). "An unfinished movement: Reflecting on 100 years of women's suffrage in Georgia". AJC. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
16. ^ Landers, Lisa (2019-12-05). "Collection Highlights: Anna Howard Shaw and the Woman's Committee for War Work". Georgia History Festival. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
17. ^ a b "Suffragists in Georgia". Turning Point Suffragist Memorial. Retrieved 2020-10-18.
18. ^ Pirani, Fiza (16 August 2020). "Remembering suffragettes with Georgia ties as 19th Amendment turns 100". AJC. Retrieved 2020-10-16.
19. ^ Taylor 1959, p. 19-20.
20. ^ Summerlin 2009, p. 92.
21. ^ Landers, Lisa (2019-11-21). "Collection Highlights: Program from the third Annual Meeting of the Savannah Federation of Negro Women's Clubs". Georgia History Festival. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
22. ^ Summerlin 2009, p. 111.
23. ^ Summerlin 2009, p. 109.
24. ^ Harper 1922, p. 125.
25. ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 122.
26. ^ Summerlin 2009, p. 32.
27. ^ K.M.M. (March 1895). "Visit From Susan B. Anthony". The Bulletin of Atlanta University. No. 63\. pp. 3–4. Retrieved 16 October 2020 - via HBCU Library Alliance.
28. ^ a b c Summerlin 2009, p. 35.
29. ^ a b c Taylor 1958, p. 350.
30. ^ Taylor 1944, p. 76.
31. ^ a b Taylor 1958, p. 352.
32. ^ Taylor 1958, p. 342.
33. ^ Taylor 1959, p. 24.
34. ^ Taylor 1958, p. 340.
35. ^ Summerlin 2009, p. 44.
36. ^ a b Summerlin 2009, p. 70.
37. ^ Summerlin 2009, p. 108.

### Sources[edit]

* Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
* Partridge, Brittany (2014). Georgia Women and Their Struggle for the Vote (Thesis). Georgia Southern University.
* Summerlin, Elizabeth Stephens (2009). 'Not Ratified But Hereby Rejected': The Women's Suffrage Movement in Georgia, 1895-1925 (PDF) (Master of Arts thesis). The University of Georgia.
* Taylor, A. Elizabeth (June 1944). "The Origin of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Georgia". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 28 (2): 63–79. JSTOR 40576929 - via JSTOR.
* Taylor, A. Elizabeth (December 1958). "Revival and Development of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Georgia". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 42 (4): 339–354. JSTOR 40578025 - via JSTOR.
* Taylor, A. Elizabeth (March 1959). "The Last Phase of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Georgia". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 43 (1): 11–28. JSTOR 40577919 - via JSTOR.

## External links[edit]

* Today in Georgia history