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Mabel Ping-Hua Lee championed the rights of women & Chinese Americans. She led a New York City suffrage parade, wrote articles, gave speeches & became the first Chinese woman to earn a PhD in Economics from Columbia University. https://t.co/hg1v2LUAbM

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2020-08-27

Inez Milholland sacrificed her life to secure votes for women. She led the DC suffrage parade & ensured that women of color could march. In 1916, the 30 yr old collapsed during a speech & later died, becoming a martyr for the cause. https://t.co/hg1v2LCYNc

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2020-08-26

Adelina Otero-Warren spoke up for women’s rights, especially in her home state, New Mexico, where she led the National Woman's Party chapter. She distributed suffrage literature in English & Spanish to reach a broad audience. https://t.co/hg1v2LCYNc

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2020-08-25

Alice Paul provoked controversy about women’s suffrage, which attracted valuable attention to the cause. She led a parade in Washington, DC and organized the nation’s first ever pickets of the White House. https://t.co/hg1v2LUAbM

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2020-08-24

Jeannette Rankin asserted her support of women’s rights. Rankin became the first woman elected to US Congress in 1916. While in office, she advocated for the 19th Amendment’s passage. https://t.co/qk7EIOhD6e

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2020-08-23

Lucy Burns dedicated her life to women's suffrage. She helped organize the 1913 parade in DC. She picketed the White House, was arrested and sentenced to 6 months in a workhouse. She went on hunger strikes & was force fed. https://t.co/hg1v2LUAbM

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2020-08-22

Zitkala-Ša, of the Yankton Dakota Sioux, defended rights of Native people & women. She gave lectures & wrote about Native life to challenge stereotypes and founded the National Council of American Indians to fight for voting rights. https://t.co/hg1v2LUAbM

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2020-08-20

Mary Talbert challenged discrimination by advocating for better education, job opportunities, political representation and more. She also became president of the National Association of Colored Women. https://t.co/hg1v2LUAbM

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2020-08-18

Jane Addams led reform movements for women’s votes, peace & the support of immigrants. She founded the Hull House in Chicago in 1889, and became a leader in the National American Woman Suffrage Association & helped found the NAACP. https://t.co/hg1v2LCYNc

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2020-08-14

Carrie Chapman Catt mobilized women to secure the vote. She founded the International Woman Suffrage Alliance & when president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, she established the “Winning Plan." https://t.co/hg1v2LUAbM

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2020-08-13

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont defied expectations & became a crucial suffrage fundraiser, raising money for the National Woman’s Party. Today, the runs in DC, purchased by Belmont to be the NWP's HQ. https://t.co/hg1v2LUAbM

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2020-08-12

Anna Howard Shaw sought to unify women to fight for voting rights. Shaw dedicated her life to opening up opportunities to women. She became a popular speaker and president for the National American Woman Suffrage Association. https://t.co/qk7EIOzeuO

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2020-08-11

Mary Ann Shadd Cary dared to fight for civil & women's rights through her lectures & articles. She founded the Colored Women’s Progressive Franchise Association, which paved the way for Black women’s clubs founded in the 1890s.

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2020-08-08

Susan B. Anthony agitated for change all her life. She started as an antislavery activist & became a suffrage leader. Anthony worked with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to found the first national women’s suffrage organization.

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2020-08-07

Harriet Tubman is most famous for leading enslaved people to freedom, but she also fought for civil rights & women’s rights. In 1896, she helped found the National Association of Colored Women, which fought against racial violence and for suffrage.

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2020-08-06

Lucy Stone resisted gender norms as a women’s rights leader. When she married, she challenged tradition by keeping her own name. In 1870, she founded the American Woman Suffrage Association & The Woman’s Journal newspaper to engage supporters everywhere.

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2020-08-05

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an innovative thinker, writer & leader. After years of antislavery activism, she helped spark the women’s rights movement by drafting the Declaration of Sentiments for the Women's Rights Convention in 1848.

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2020-08-04

Sophia & Giles Pilcher overcame personal tragedy to become stalwarts of the campaign. Discover their part in Surrey’s road to the vote with our latest biog page https://t.co/YZudsz4arc

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2019-09-06