Biographical Database of Militant Woman Suffragists, 1913-1920
A Crowdsourcing Experiment

We are grateful to Professor Jill Zahniser who first approached us with a proposal to create a database of militant women suffragists who supported efforts of the National Woman's Party to secure woman suffrage. Professor Zahniser provided us with a spreadsheet of about 200 supporters of NEWP picketing of the White House in 1917-1919 and later supplied another list of 100 NWP supporters. As volunteer work on these activists progressed we identified another 120 suffragists who we added to our militant suffragist group.

This collaborative project provided a rare opportunity to engage women's history students in the research, interpretation, and writing of women's history for a broad public. Students received authorship credit for their work and made a contribution to the new research associated with the centennial celebration of the passage of Woman Suffrage in the United States.

You can access sketches already published for this project at  https://documents.alexanderstreet.com/VOTESforWOMEN. If you have additional information about one of our NWP suffragists and would like to offer revisions to an existing sketch, please contact Tom Dublin at tdublin@binghamton.edu