Suffrage Supporters of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1890-1920

Beginning in June 2015, we at Women and Social Movements in the United States launched a crowdsourcing project that has resulted in the publication of the “Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States.”  Now, basically completed, this resource includes about 3,760 biographical sketches of women supporters of woman suffrage campaigns in the first two decades of the twentieth century.

The Online Dictionary includes three distinct groups of woman suffragists: about 420 supporters of the militant suffrage group, the National Woman’s Party, including women who picketed in 1917-1919 in Washington, D.C., New York and Boston to protest the slowness with which the administration of President Woodrow Wilson embraced the woman suffrage cause; about 460 Black women suffragists whose writings have been collected and published on the website; finally, 2,880 mainstream suffrage supporters affiliated with the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), whose names are listed in state reports printed in volume 6 of the History of Woman Suffrage (1922).

To facilitate research on NAWSA activists, we have posted a .pdf version of The History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 6, 1900-1920 on this site.   Click Here.  to view the volume. For access to a research guide for volunteers preparing bio sketches,  Click Here. To view a sample biographical sketch to use as a template,   Click Here. This sample includes further suggestions for sketch writers. If you know of information that could materially revise an existing biographical sketch, please contact project director, Tom Dublin  tdublin@binghamton.edu. 

In March 2019 we posted the first  biographical sketches for our Online Biographical Dictionary.  As of July 2024 we have 3,760 sketches accessible at   https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/VOTESforWOMEN It is also accessible through the libraries of colleges and universities that subscribe to the online journal and database,  Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000.