Equal Suffrage Study Club, the Glossary
The Wilmington Equal Suffrage Study Club (WESSC) was the name of an African American women's suffrage organization, founded in Wilmington, Delaware, in March 1914.[1]
Table of Contents
10 relations: Alice Dunbar Nelson, Blanche Williams Stubbs, Delaware, Delaware House of Representatives, Emma Belle Gibson Sykes, Fannie Hopkins Hamilton, Mary J. Johnson Woodlen, Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Suffrage, Wilmington, Delaware.
- Women's suffrage advocacy groups in the United States
- Women's suffrage in Delaware
Alice Dunbar Nelson
Alice Dunbar Nelson (July 19, 1875 – September 18, 1935) was an American poet, journalist, and political activist.
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Blanche Williams Stubbs
Blanche Willams Stubbs (1872 – 1952) was an American civil rights activist and suffragist.
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Delaware
Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region of the United States.
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Delaware House of Representatives
The Delaware State House of Representatives is the lower house of the Delaware General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Delaware.
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Emma Belle Gibson Sykes
Emma Belle Gibson Sykes (October 8, 1885 – December 31, 1970) was a suffragist and civil rights activist.
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Fannie Hopkins Hamilton
Fannie Hopkins Hamilton(1882 – 1964) was a dress maker and suffragist who joined the Equal Suffrage Study Club and uplifted the black community in Wilmington, Delaware.
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Mary J. Johnson Woodlen
Mary J. Johnson Woodlen (1870-1933) was an influential suffragist in Wilmington, Delaware.
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Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect recognizing the right of women to vote.
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Suffrage
Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote).
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Wilmington, Delaware
Wilmington (Lenape: Paxahakink / Pakehakink) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek, near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River.
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See also
Women's suffrage advocacy groups in the United States
- Alpha Suffrage Club
- American Equal Rights Association
- American Woman Suffrage Association
- Association for the Advancement of Women
- Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government
- Brooklyn Woman's Club
- California Equal Suffrage Association
- Cambridge Political Equality Association
- College Equal Suffrage League
- Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage
- Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association
- Dallas Equal Suffrage Association
- Equal Franchise Society
- Equal Suffrage League (Brooklyn)
- Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
- Equal Suffrage Study Club
- Era Club of New Orleans
- Evelyn Wotherspoon Wainwright
- Fannie Jackson Coppin Club
- Frederick Douglass Woman's Club
- Georgia Woman Suffrage Association
- Indiana Woman's Suffrage Association
- Iowa Federation of Colored Women's Clubs
- League of Women Voters
- League of Women Voters of Florida
- Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission
- Maryland Woman Suffrage Association
- Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
- Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association
- Missouri League of Women Voters
- National American Woman Suffrage Association
- National Junior Suffrage Corps
- National Woman Suffrage Association
- National Woman's Party
- National Women's Rights Convention
- New England Woman Suffrage Association
- Prison Special
- Queen Isabella Association
- South Carolina Equal Rights Association
- Southern States Woman Suffrage Conference
- Suffrage Special
- Texas Equal Rights Association
- Texas Equal Suffrage Association
- The Men's League
- Wage Earner's Suffrage League
- West Virginia Equal Suffrage Association
- Woman Suffrage Party
- Woman's Club of San Antonio
- Women's Trade Union League
Women's suffrage in Delaware
- Equal Suffrage Study Club
- List of Delaware suffragists
- Timeline of women's suffrage in Delaware
- Women's suffrage in Delaware