suffragist
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Ms. Gray is the author of “Nellie McClung,” a biography of Canada’s best known suffragist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
That’s when theatrical producer Rachel Sussman approached her with the book “Jailed for Freedom,” written by suffragist and legal rights advocate Doris Stevens and published in 1920.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2025
As to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, I think, if anything, the history of the suffragist movement shows that you can make alliances with people, but you do not compromise on basic human rights.
From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025
The family and Perkins shared a mutual contact: reformer and suffragist Gertrude Ely, of Pennsylvania.
From Slate • Jan. 26, 2025
Prominent black journalist and activist Ida B. Wells was a vocal critic of the suffragist movement’s racism.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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