Even before women's suffrage efforts took off in Rhode Island, women were fighting for equal male suffrage during the Dorr Rebellion. Women raised money for the Dorrite cause, took political action an
Suffrage meeting at Alva Belmont's Marble House in Newport.
Excerpt from The Una, women's rights publication in Rhode Island.
Suffragists Letitia Lawton, Cora Mitchel, and Emeline Eldredge in 1907.
Suffrage envoy Sara Bard Field with Ingeborg Kindstedt and Maria Kindberg from Rhode Island.
Women's suffrage, or the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first in various states and localities, then nationally
Women's suffrage in Rhode Island
…Timeline of women's suffrage in Rhode Island Women's suffrage in the United States Anthony, Susan B.; Harper, Ida Husted (1902). The History of Woman Suffrage. Indianapolis: The Hollenbeck Press…
Women's suffragists parade in New York City in 1917, carrying placards with the signatures of more than a million women.
Margaret Fuller
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Lucy Stone