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If that unlikelihood wasn’t established pre-Civil War, it was certainly affirmed by both the suffragist and traditional feminist movements.
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The alert, or even mildly unalert, reader might have noticed that Smith misspelled Ms. Morrissy Merick’s maiden name, as well as that of suffragist Susan B. Anthony.
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His estate went to his daughter Elizabeth, who was married to U.S. State Marshall Leslie Scott, the son of Oregonian editor and anti-suffragist Harvey Scott.
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His address to a suffragists' convention had bombed, perhaps because the corpulent leader had insulted his female audience.
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Suffragists who won women the right to vote almost 100 years ago fought for women’s full participation in society, yet were adamantly pro-life.
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One by one, each read from the Declaration of Sentiments, the text modeled on the Declaration of Independence and written in by the suffragists demanding equality and decrying a government that did not grant it.
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First Known Use of suffragist
1822
SUFFRAGIST Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of suffragist for English Language Learners
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: a person in the past who worked to get voting rights for people who did not have them
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