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Suffragist meaning
A person who promotes suffrage. | One who votes.
Example sentences (13)
April Young Bennett, author of the “Ask a Suffragist” book series, host of the Religious Feminism Podcast, and a writer for the Exponent II, will speak at 6:30 p.m. in the Governors Room of the Overman Student Center, 302 E. Cleveland Ave.
Center, followed by Occoquan Regional Park which is home to the Turning Point Suffragist Memorial.
A handful of women have contended for the presidency, starting with the suffragist Victoria Woodhull, who ran in 1862, before women could vote — and, as I’ve said, you can’t run for president if you’re not abnormally confident.
Consider this: When a monument depicting Stanton alongside Susan B. Anthony and fellow suffragist Lucretia Mott was donated to the United States Congress in 1921, its tortured journey became something of a metaphor for the battle for equal representation.
Founded in 1925 as Mahim Park, the open space was renamed as Shivaji Park in 1927 due to efforts by freedom fighter, suffragist and then BMC councillor Avantikabai Gokhale.
The first version of the ERA was introduced by suffragist Alice Paul in 1923.
Fawcett considered herself a suffragist, a moderate opposed to the sometimes violent protests of campaigners like Pankhurst, known as a suffragette.
She is pushing for a monument honoring the African-American abolitionist and suffragist to be built.
The civil rights leader and women’s suffragist called Chicago home for more than 35 years.
There were pristine suffragist tuxedo suits and sweeping, severe Grand Bal capes, and luckily very few overt visual puns, apart from some silly net masks over the models’ eyes and some tulle cage corsetry under it all.
Her forceful and intellectual mother was a suffragist who fought for the rights of women to vote.
However, she is primarily known for her work as a suffragist (a campaigner for women to have the vote).
In 1906 Daily Mail journalist Charles Hands referred to militant women using the diminutive term " suffragette " (rather than the standard " suffragist ").