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.
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Groups
- Alaska Native Brotherhood, formed in 1912.
- Alaska Native Sisterhood, formed in 1915.
- National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
- Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
Suffragists and other voting rights advocates
- Ada Brownell (Seward).
- Ida E. Green (Seward).
- Margaret Keenan Harrais (Skagway).
- Cornelia Templeton Hatcher (Knik).
- Milo Kelly (Knik).
- Emma Lefevre (Skagway).
- Lena Morrow Lewis (Fairbanks).
- Clara Michener (Ketchikan).
- Francis Turner Pedersen (Seward).
- Harriet Pullen (Skagway).
- Lucy Record Spaeth (Ketchikan).
- Arthur G. Stroup (Sitka).
- Lulu Thompson (Juneau).
Indigenous voting rights activists
- Tillie Paul (Tlingit).
- William Paul (Tlingit).
See also
- Timeline of women's suffrage in Alaska
- Women's suffrage in Alaska
- Native Americans and women's suffrage in the United States
- Women's suffrage in states of the United States
- Women's suffrage in the United States
References
- ^ Sostaric, Katarina (2015-10-12). "Alaska Native Sisterhood celebrates 100th anniversary in Wrangell". KTOO. Retrieved 2020-11-08.
- ^ Harper 1922, p. 713.
- ^ Lapka, Alyssa (13 March 2019). "The Life of Cornelia Templeton Jewett Hatcher". Alaska Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ Beeton, Beverly; Parham, R. Bruce (July 2020). "Votes for Women, Woman Suffrage in Alaska: A Resource List". Alaska Historical Society. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- ^ Carney, Amy. "Alaska's Suffrage Star: Home". Alaska Libraries, Archives, Museums. Retrieved 2020-11-12.
- "Lena Morrow Lewis". Alaska Women's Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- Spude 2015, p. 223-224.
- "Tillie Paul Tamaree & the Tlingit Community". Presbyterian Historical Society. 17 September 2020. Retrieved 2020-11-09.
- 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.