Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of
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 women the right to vot ...
in Pennsylvania.
Conventions
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Pennsylvania Woman's Convention at West Chester in 1852
The Pennsylvania Woman's Convention at West Chester in 1852 was held in West Chester, Pennsylvania on June 2 and 3. The convention attracted many Women's rights, women's rights activists from around the United States. The convention discussed women ...
.
*5th
National Women's Rights Convention
The National Women's Rights Convention was an annual series of meetings that increased the visibility of the early women's rights movement in the United States. First held in 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts, the National Women's Rights Convention ...
, held in
Philadelphia
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1854.
Groups
* Allegheny County Equal Rights Association (ACERA), formed in 1904.
*Chester County Equal Suffrage Association.
*Citizen's Suffrage Association, formed in Philadelphia in 1872.
*Equal Franchise Federation of Western Pennsylvania, formed on February 21, 1910.
* Equal Franchise Society of Philadelphia.
*Equal Rights Association, formed in Philadelphia in 1866.
*Equal Franchise Federation of Pittsburgh.
*Lackawanna County Equal Franchise League.
*Northwestern Pennsylvania Equal Franchise Association.
*Pennsylvania College Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1908.
* Pennsylvania Men's League for Woman Suffrage, formed in March 1912.
*Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association, created in 1869.
* Woman Suffrage Party of Chester County.
*Woman Suffrage Society of Philadelphia, formed in 1892.
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an international temperance organization, originating among women in the United States Prohibition movement. It was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program th ...
(WCTU).
*Women's Suffrage Society of Monroe County.
Philadelphia
Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania#Municipalities, largest city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the List of United States cities by population, sixth-largest city i ...
).
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Rachel Foster Avery
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Pittsburgh
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Lavinia Nelson Clarke
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Erie
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).
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Jennie Cleveland
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(Erie).
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(Pittsburgh).
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JoAnna Connell
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(Erie).
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Cora Crawford
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(Philadelphia).
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Lavinia Dock
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* Gertrude Fuller (Pittsburgh).
* Mary Grew.
* Reba Gomborov (Philadelphia).
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Angelina Grimké
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Frances Harper
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Hannah Clothier Hull
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(Pittsburgh).
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Jane Hunt
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Caroline Katzenstein
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Somerset
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Gertrude Bustill Mossell
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(Philadelphia).
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Lucretia Mott
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(Philadelphia).
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Gertrude Bustill Mossell
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Sarah Pugh
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Robert Purvis
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Marion Margery Scranton
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Eliza Kennedy Smith
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Jane Swisshelm
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Eliza Sproat Turner
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William Cameron Sproul
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Washington Memorial Chapel
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Susan B. Anthony
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Henry Browne Blackwell
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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Mary Dennett
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale
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Nellie McClung
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Inez Milholland
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Anna Howard Shaw
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Ruza Wenclawska
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List of historical Pennsylvania women This is a list of prominent historical Pennsylvania women:
* Mary Ambler (1805–1868)
*Marian Anderson (1897–1993)/
*Nellie Bly (1864–1922)
*Pearl S. Buck
*Rachel Carson (1907–1964)
* Margaret Corbin (1754–1800)
* Henrietta Crosman
*Isabel ...
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Timeline of women's suffrage in Pennsylvania
This is a timeline of women's suffrage in Pennsylvania. Activists in the state began working towards women's rights in the early 1850s, when two women's rights conventions discussed women's suffrage. A statewide group, the Pennsylvania Woman Suff ...
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Women's suffrage in Pennsylvania
Women's suffrage in Pennsylvania was an outgrowth of the Abolitionism, abolitionist movement in the state. Early women's suffrage advocates in Pennsylvania not only wanted equal suffrage for white women, but for all African Americans. The first Pen ...
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Women's suffrage in states of the United States
Women's suffrage was established in the United States on a full or partial basis by various towns, counties, states and territories during the latter decades of the 19th century and early part of the 20th century. As women received the right to ...
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Women's suffrage in the United States
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