List of Alaska suffragists

This is a list of Alaska suffragists, suffrage groups and others associated with the cause of women's suffrage in the U.S. territory, and later state, of Alaska.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (November 2020)

Groups

Alaska Native Sisterhood in Douglas, Alaska, November 19, 1921

Suffragists and other voting rights advocates

  • Ada Brownell (Seward).[4]
  • Ida E. Green (Seward).[4]
  • Margaret Keenan Harrais (Skagway).[5]
  • Cornelia Templeton Hatcher (Knik).[3][5]
  • Milo Kelly (Knik).[4]
  • Emma Lefevre (Skagway).[5]
  • Lena Morrow Lewis (Fairbanks).[6][5]
  • Clara Michener (Ketchikan).[5]
  • Francis Turner Pedersen (Seward).[4]
  • Harriet Pullen (Skagway).[7]
  • Lucy Record Spaeth (Ketchikan).[5]
  • Arthur G. Stroup (Sitka).[2]
  • Lulu Thompson (Juneau).[5]

Indigenous voting rights activists

  • Tillie Paul (Tlingit).[8]
  • William Paul (Tlingit).[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Sostaric, Katarina (2015-10-12). "Alaska Native Sisterhood celebrates 100th anniversary in Wrangell". KTOO. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
  2. ^ a b Harper 1922, p. 713.
  3. ^ a b Lapka, Alyssa (13 March 2019). "The Life of Cornelia Templeton Jewett Hatcher". Alaska Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  4. ^ a b c d Beeton, Beverly; Parham, R. Bruce (July 2020). "Votes for Women, Woman Suffrage in Alaska: A Resource List". Alaska Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Carney, Amy. "Alaska's Suffrage Star: Home". Alaska Libraries, Archives, Museums. Retrieved 2020-11-12.
  6. ^ "Lena Morrow Lewis". Alaska Women's Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  7. ^ Spude 2015, p. 223-224.
  8. ^ "Tillie Paul Tamaree & the Tlingit Community". Presbyterian Historical Society. 17 September 2020. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
  9. ^ Cole 1992, p. 432.

Sources

  • Cole, Terrence M. (November 1992). "Jim Crow in Alaska: The Passage of the Alaska Equal Rights Act". Western Historical Quarterly. 23 (4): 429–449. doi:10.2307/970301. JSTOR 970301. S2CID 163528642 – via JSTOR.
  • Harper, Ida Husted (1922). The History of Woman Suffrage. New York: J.J. Little & Ives Company.
  • Spude, Catharine Holder (2015). Saloons, Prostitutes, and Temperance in Alaska Territory. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806149974.