This is a list of Alaska suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in the U.S. territory, and later state, of Alaska.
Groups
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- Alaska Native Brotherhood, formed in 1912.[1]
- Alaska Native Sisterhood, formed in 1915.[1]
- National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).[2]
- Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).[3]
Suffragists and other voting rights advocates
edit- Ada Brownell (Seward).[4]
- Ida E. Green (Seward).[4]
- Margaret Keenan Harrais (Skagway).[5]
- Cornelia Templeton Hatcher (Knik).[3][5]
- Milo Kelly (Knik).[4]
- Emma Lefevre (Skagway).[5]
- Lena Morrow Lewis (Fairbanks).[6][5]
- Clara Michener (Ketchikan).[5]
- Francis Turner Pedersen (Seward).[4]
- Harriet Pullen (Skagway).[7]
- Lucy Record Spaeth (Ketchikan).[5]
- Arthur G. Stroup (Sitka).[2]
- Lulu Thompson (Juneau).[5]
Indigenous voting rights activists
edit- Tillie Paul (Tlingit).[8]
- William Paul (Tlingit).[9]
See also
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edit- 1 2 Sostaric, Katarina (October 12, 2015). "Alaska Native Sisterhood celebrates 100th anniversary in Wrangell". KTOO. Retrieved November 8, 2020.
- 1 2 Harper 1922, p. 713.
- 1 2 Lapka, Alyssa (March 13, 2019). "The Life of Cornelia Templeton Jewett Hatcher". Alaska Historical Society. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
- 1 2 3 4 Beeton, Beverly; Parham, R. Bruce (July 2020). "Votes for Women, Woman Suffrage in Alaska: A Resource List". Alaska Historical Society. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Carney, Amy. "Alaska's Suffrage Star: Home". Alaska Libraries, Archives, Museums. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
- ↑ "Lena Morrow Lewis". Alaska Women's Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on November 16, 2020. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
- ↑ Spude 2015, p. 223-224.
- ↑ "Tillie Paul Tamaree & the Tlingit Community". Presbyterian Historical Society. September 17, 2020. Archived from the original on January 25, 2021. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
- ↑ Cole 1992, p. 432.
Sources
edit- Cole, Terrence M. (November 1992). "Jim Crow in Alaska: The Passage of the Alaska Equal Rights Act". Western Historical Quarterly. 23 (4): 429–449. doi:10.2307/970301. JSTOR 970301. S2CID 163528642.
- Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
- Spude, Catharine Holder (2015). Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806149974.