Equal Suffrage League of Virginia The Equal Suffrage League of Virginia was founded in 1909 to lobby for the vote for women as part of a national wave of suffrage activity. Prominent women involved in the league included writers Ellen Glasgow and Mary Johnston, artists Adèle Clark and Nora Houston, physician Kate Waller Barrett, and reformer Lila Meade Valentine (Image courtesy of Virginia Museum of History and Culture).
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起点加速器安装 Members of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia engaged in a host of activities to promote women’s suffrage, many of which pressed the bounds of allowable activity for women at the time: they spoke in public parks and at county fairs, canvassed door-to-door, and distributed "Votes for Women" buttons on statewide speaking tours (Image courtesy of Library of Virginia).
Lucy Branham on the "Prison Special" Tour Virginia-born suffragist Lucy Branham took part in the "Prison Special" tour in 1919 to lobby for the Nineteenth Amendment. Branham was among 33 women imprisoned in 1917 at the Occoquan Workhouse, in Lorton, Virginia, where they were beaten and tortured, for peacefully protesting in front of the White House for the right to vote (Image courtesy of Library of Congress Manuscripts Division).
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Virginia League of Women Voters Poster After women won the vote with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution on August 26, 1920, the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia disbanded and reorganized as the Virginia League of Woman Voters. The league produced this poster to encourage women to cast their ballot in the national election of 1920 (Image courtesy of Library of Virginia).
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First African American Voters in Ettrick, Virginia These faculty members at Virginia State University, a historically black land-grant university, were the first black women to vote in Ettrick, Virginia, although black women throughout the state had difficulty registering to vote in 1920 (Image courtesy of Special Collections and University Archive, Virginia State University).
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