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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

  1. 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.

  2. Women's suffrage advocacy groups in the United States
  3. 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

Women's suffrage in Delaware

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Suffrage_Study_Club