Lillie Devereux Blake

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Lillie Devereux Blake

Lillie Devereux Blake was a writer, reporter, and suffragette who signed the 1876 Centennial Women’s Rights Declaration.

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Margaret Fuller

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Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller was a Transcendentalist, women’s rights advocate, and first woman reporter, foreign correspondent, and war correspondent for the Roman Revolution.

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Matilda Joslyn Gage

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Matilda Joslyn Gage

Matilda Joslyn Gage was a suffragist, Native American activist, an abolitionist, freethinker, and a prolific author, who “was born with a hatred of oppression.”

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Hester C. Jeffrey

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Hester C. Jeffrey

Hester C. Jeffrey was an African-American activist, suffragist, and community organizer in Rochester, New York, and New York City.

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Edna Buckman Kearns

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Edna Buckman Kearns

Edna Buckman Kearns was a grassroots suffrage organizer in New York City and Long Island, best known for her “Spirit of 1776” suffrage campaign wagon.

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Ruth Carpenter Litt

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Ruth Carpenter Litt

Ruth Carpenter Litt, a Patchogue, Long Island, suffragist, was an innovative farmer and wealthy landowner who went on to become a major political force.

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