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List of Florida suffragists

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This is a list of Florida suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in Florida.

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Groups

  • Florida Equal Franchise League, formed 1912.{{Cite web|title=Women's Equality Day|url=https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/295209|access-date=29 November 2020|website=Florida Memory}}
  • Florida Woman Suffrage Association, formed in January 1893.{{Cite web|title=Ella Chamberlain|url=https://lowerkeyslwv.org/ella-chamberlain/|access-date=2020-12-02|website=Lower Keys League of Women Voters|date=13 July 2020 |language=en-US}}
  • Men's Suffrage League of Orlando, created March 1914.{{Cite web|last=Andrews|first=Mark|date=8 September 1996|title=LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LED THE WAY IN WOMEN'S MARCH FOR SUFFRAGE|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1996-09-08-9609060699-story.html|access-date=2020-12-02|website=Orlando Sentinel|language=en-US}}
  • Milton Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1914.{{Sfn|LWV|1995|p=9}}
  • National Woman's Party.{{Cite web|title=Florida and the 19th Amendment|url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/florida-and-the-19th-amendment.htm|access-date=2020-12-02|website=U.S. National Park Service|language=en}}
  • Orlando Suffrage League, formed 1913.
  • Pensacola Equal Suffrage League, created in 1914.{{Sfn|LWV|1995|p=7,9}}
  • Political Equality Club, created in February 1913.{{Sfn|Taylor|1957|p=45-46}}

Suffragists

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  • Frances Anderson (Jacksonville).{{Sfn|Johnson|1970|p=299}}
  • Blanche Armwood (Tampa).{{Cite web |last=Hewitt |first=Nancy |title=Biographical Sketch of Blanche Armwood |url=https://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cbibliographic_details%7C4744665 |access-date=2023-03-23 |website=Alexander Street}}
  • Elizabeth Askew (Tampa).{{Cite journal|last=Cole|first=Nancy|title=Biographical Sketch of Elizabeth Askew|url=https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1010111663|journal=Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920|via=Alexander Street}}
  • Jessie M. Bartlett (St. Petersburg).{{Sfn|Anthony|1902|p=577}}{{Sfn|Taylor|1957|p=44}}
  • Mary McLeod Bethune (Daytona Beach).{{Cite web|last=Jones|first=Ida E.|title=Mary McLeod Bethune, True Democracy, and the Fight for Universal Suffrage|url=https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/340193|access-date=29 November 2020|website=Florida Memory}}
  • Caroline Mays Brevard (Brevard County).
  • Mary Elizabeth Bryan (Miami).{{Sfn|Van Howe|1991|p=34}}
  • Ella C. Chamberlain (Tampa).{{Cite web|title=Suffragists in Florida|url=https://suffragistmemorial.org/suffragists-in-florida/|access-date=2020-11-30|website=Turning Point Suffragist Memorial|language=en-US}}
  • Roselle Cooley (Jacksonville).{{Sfn|Johnson|1970|p=299}}
  • Hannah Detwiller.{{Sfn|Taylor|1957|p=53}}
  • Marjory Stoneman Douglas (Miami).{{Cite web|title=Marjory Stoneman Douglas|url=https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/340193|access-date=29 November 2020|website=Florida Memory}}
  • Zena Dreier (Fellsmere).{{Cite web|last=Pallone|first=Greg|date=5 March 2020|title=Women's History Month: Tiny Florida Town Pioneered Women's Suffrage|url=https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2020/03/05/fellsmere--tiny-florida-town-pioneered-women-s-suffrage|access-date=2020-11-30|website=Spectrum News 13|language=en}}
  • Katherine Livingstone Eagan (Jacksonville).{{Sfn|Harper|1922|p=113}}
  • Nellie Glenn (Melrose).{{Sfn|Anthony|1902|p=577}}{{Sfn|Taylor|1957|p=44}}
  • Emma Hainer (Orlando).{{Sfn|Taylor|1957|p=45-46}}
  • May Mann Jennings.{{Cite web|title=Suffrage in Florida|url=https://museumoffloridahistory.com/learn/the-19th-amendment-at-100/suffrage-in-florida/|access-date=2020-11-30|website=Museum of Florida History}}
  • Mary Belle Jewett (Winter Haven).{{Sfn|Taylor|1957|p=49}}{{Cite web|last=Burton|first=LaFrancine K.|date=29 November 2003|title=White Philanthropists Pushed Education, Improvement for Polk Blacks|url=https://www.theledger.com/article/20031129/news/608125851|access-date=2020-12-04|website=The Ledger|language=en}}
  • Minnie Kehoe.{{Sfn|LWV|1995|p=22}}
  • Mary A. Nolan (Jacksonville).
  • Julia Norris (Tampa).
  • Edith Owen Stoner (Jacksonville).{{Cite journal|last=O'Neill|first=Brittany|title=Biographical Sketch of Edith May Owen Stoner|url=https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1010596204|journal=Biographical Database of NAWSA Suffragists, 1890-1920|via=Alexander Street}}
  • Mary A. Safford (Orlando).
  • John Schnarr (Orlando).{{Cite web|last=Andrews|first=Mark|date=1 September 1996|title=CENTRAL FLORIDA PLAYED A BIG PART IN THE STATE'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT|url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1996-09-01-9608291707-story.html|access-date=2020-12-01|website=OrlandoSentinel.com|language=en-US}}
  • E. Frank Sperry.{{Sfn|Harper|1922|p=115}}
  • Helen Starbuck (Orlando).{{Sfn|Taylor|1957|p=45-46}}
  • Ivy Stranahan (Fort Lauderdale).{{Cite web|last=Harakas|first=Margo|date=14 March 1999|title=Advancing Equality|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1999-03-14-9903130390-story.html|access-date=2020-12-02|website=Sun-Sentinel|language=en-US}}
  • Emma Tebbitts (Crescent City).{{Sfn|Anthony|1902|p=577}}{{Sfn|Taylor|1957|p=44}}
  • Helen Hunt West (Jacksonville).{{Cite journal|last=Campana|first=Kayla|title=Biographical Sketch of Helen Hunt West|url=https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/d/1008342616|journal=Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920|via=Alexander Street}}
  • Lillian C. West (Bay County).{{Cite web|last=Redd|first=Kenny|date=19 June 2020|title=Suffrage: Long road for Florida women|url=https://www.newsherald.com/story/news/education/2020/06/19/suffrage-long-road-for-florida-women/112578264/|access-date=2020-11-30|website=Panama City News Herald|language=en-US}}
  • Eartha M. M. White (Jacksonville).

= Politicians who supported women's suffrage =

  • James L. Giles (Orlando).
  • E. F. Sperry (Orlando).

Suffragists who campaigned in Florida

Anti-suffragists in Florida

See also

References

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= Sources =

  • {{Cite book|last=Anthony|first=Susan B.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NbZVAAAAYAAJ&q=florida|title=The History of Woman Suffrage|publisher=The Hollenbeck Press|year=1902|editor-last=Anthony|editor-first=Susan B.|volume=4|location=Indianapolis|author-link=Susan B. Anthony|editor-last2=Harper|editor-first2=Ida Husted}}
  • {{Cite book|last=Harper|first=Ida Husted|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aX5KAAAAYAAJ&q=florida|title=The History of Woman Suffrage|publisher=J.J. Little & Ives Company|year=1922|location=New York|author-link=Ida Husted Harper}}
  • {{Cite journal|last=Johnson|first=Kenneth R.|date=January 1970|title=The Woman Suffrage Movement in Florida|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30161501|journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly|volume=48|issue=3|pages=299–312|jstor=30161501|url-access=registration}}
  • {{Cite journal|last=LWV|date=1995|title=When Women Vote: A Study of the Pensacola Suffragist Movement and the Founding of the League of Women Voters of the Pensacola Bay Area and Its History|url=http://www.lwvpba.org/documents/WhenWomenVote2020.pdf|journal=The League of Women Voters of the Pensacola Bay Area}}
  • {{Cite journal|last=Taylor|first=A. Elizabeth|date=July 1957|title=The Woman Suffrage Movement in Florida|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/30138972|journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly|volume=36|issue=1|pages=42–60|jstor=30138972|url-access=registration}}
  • {{Cite journal|last=Van Howe|first=Annette|date=1991|title=The Women's Suffrage Movement In Broward County and Florida|url=https://journals.flvc.org/browardlegacy/article/view/77085/74606|journal=Broward Legacy|volume=14|issue=3|pages=37–42}}

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