Alice B. Overbey Taylor (1879 – 1919) was an American suffragist. She was the manager of the short-lived ''Virginia Suffrage News''.

Biography

Taylor née Overbey was born on July 28, 1879, in Charlotte County, Virginia. On 20 September 1909 she married Doward Miles Taylor. The couple settled in Richmond, Virginia In the early 1910s Overbey became active in the suffragist movement. She was a member of the

Equal Suffrage League of Virginia The Equal Suffrage League of Virginia was founded in 1909 in Richmond, Virginia. Like many similar organizations in other states, the league's goal was to secure voting rights for women. When the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratifie ...

, serving as executive secretary and office manager from 1913 thorough 1915. In 1915 Taylor had a short story published in the ''American Home Journal''. Around 1917, at the start of World War I, the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia added support of the American troops to their agenda. Taylor was appointed chair of the Committee of Agriculture and Thrift for the league. In 1918 Taylor became the league's chair of the Committee for the Protection of Women's Labor. The following year she was named program chair for the Richmond chapter of the Equal Suffrage League. Taylor died of cancer on December 29, 1919, in Richmond.

Virginia Suffrage News

In 1914 Overbey created and funded the publication the ''Virginia Suffrage News''. Taylor served as publisher and manager. Fellow suffragist

Mary Ellen Pollard Clarke Mary Ellen Pollard Clarke (1862–1939) was an American suffragist. She was the editor-in-chief of the short-lived ''Virginia Suffrage News'' and the author of essays on public policy, literature, and suffrage. Biography Clarke née Pollard was b ...

served as editor-in-chief. The first issue was published in Richmond on October 1, 1914, as the official organ of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. Due to Taylor's poor health, and lack of funding, the ''Virginia Suffrage News'' had only three issues, from October 1, 1914, through December 1, 1914.

References

External links

Virginia Suffrage News is available digitally
at the Library of Virginia's Virginia Chronicle website {{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Alice B. Overbey 1879 births 1919 deaths People from Charlotte County, Florida Suffragists from Virginia 20th-century American women People from Richmond, Virginia