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Ida Augusta Craft (December 25, 1860 – September 14, 1947) was an American suffragist known for her participation in suffrage hikes.


Early life

Craft was born in
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, New York in 1860, the daughter of John Craft and Eleanor Voorhies Perlee Craft. Her father was a tailor.


Activism

Craft was an officer of the Bedford Political Equality League in 1897, president of the Kings County Political Equality League and belonged to the Brooklyn chapter of the Woman Suffrage Party. She attended
National Woman Suffrage Association The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed on May 15, 1869, to work for women's suffrage in the United States. Its main leaders were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was created after the women's rights movement s ...
's 1900 convention in Minneapolis as a delegate. She campaigned for suffrage in Ohio in 1912. Known as the "Colonel", because she assisted the "General",
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, Craft took a visible leadership role in the 1912–1914 Suffrage Hikes. She was arrested during the hike to Boston with
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and Vera Winthrop; they were briefly detained in Hartford, for breaking laws around the use of a vehicle for advertising and the distribution of flyers. After the suffrage hikes, she campaigned for women's suffrage in Montana, Nevada, Nebraska, Alaska, and Canada, and was a delegate to the
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convention in 1922, when it was held in Rome. Craft was an active member of the
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(YWCA) and the
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(WCTU). She was elected as a Delegate at Large to the Constitutional Convention in New York in 1914, representing the
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.


Personal life and legacy

Craft inherited a "large sum" when her mother died in 1913. She died at home in
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,
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in 1947, at the age of 86. Her grave is in
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in Brooklyn. In 2021, the Kingsborough Art Museum created a digital exhibition about Craft's activism.


See also

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List of suffragists and suffragettes This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the public ...
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List of women's rights activists This article is a list of notable women's rights activists, arranged alphabetically by modern country names and by the names of the persons listed. Afghanistan * Amina Azimi – disabled women's rights advocate * Hasina Jalal – women's empowerm ...
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Timeline of women's suffrage Women's suffrage Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections. Beginning in the start of the 18th century, some people sought to change voting laws to allow women to vote. Liberal political parties would go on to grant ...


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