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All the information on these major suffrage leaders is taken from "Women Who Fought for the Vote," History.com, August 14, 2020.

Jane Addams (1860-1935)

• American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator and author
• Important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States and advocated for world peace
• Became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931
• Recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States
• Honored in the 'Famous Americans Series' postal Issues of 1940

Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)

• American social reformer and women's rights activist
• Formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) with others in May 1869
• Formed the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) with others in November 1869 after a split in the American Equal Rights Association. It joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1890

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)

• Participated in organizing the first women’s-rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York
• A committed activist fighting for the principle of universal suffrage and against the ratification of the 15^th Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed Black men the right to vote but denied it to women
• Advocated for the reform of marriage and divorce laws, better education opportunities for girls, and less confining clothing so that women could be more active
• Published the first volume of a more egalitarian Women’s Bible in 1895

Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)

• Co-founder of the National Association of Colored Women Clubs (NACWC) and served as the first president until 1901
• Co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples (NAACP)

Lucy Stone (1818-1893)

• Best known for refusing to change her last name when she married the abolitionist Henry Blackwell in 1855
• Supported the 15^th Amendment
• Helped found the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA)
• With her husband Blackwell, began to publish the weekly feminist newspaper The Woman’s Journal in 1871

Alice Paul (1885-1977)

• Started the Congressional Union, which soon became the National Woman’s Party (1915)
• Proposed an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the Constitution in 1920. It read: “shall have equal rights throughout the United States.” It has never been ratified.

Sojourner Truth (1797-1893)

• African-American activist, inspiring preacher. Born to a slave and fought through her life against slavery and gender-inequality
• The first black woman to sue a white man
• Gave the famous “Ain’t I a woman?” speech at the Women’s Convention held in Akron, Ohio, 1851
• Visited the White House where she was received by President Abraham Lincoln in 1864

Ida B. Wells (1862-1931)

• Best known for her work as a crusading journalist and anti-lunching activist.
• Wrote for the Free Speech, a city’s Black newspaper.

Francis E.W. Harper (1825-1911)

• Abolitionist, suffragist, poet, teacher, public speaker, and writer.
• One of the first African American women to be published in the United States
• Became superintendent of the Colored Section of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Women's Christian Temperance Union in 1883
• Helped found the National Association of Colored Women and served as its vice president in 1894