Washington State Women's History: Suffrage Centennial, 1910 - 2010
Last update: September 23, 2010Tell Us Your Washington Suffrage Story:
- GovDocs/Maps Blog -- tell us your Washington suffrage story
Washington's Suffrage Movement:
 Northern Pacific Railroad's advertisement in Progress Magazine for Suffrage Special train taking delegates to July 1909 National American Woman Suffrage Convention in Seattle, March 1909 |
 Seattle women posting signs to promote woman suffrage, 1910 |
 Washington Women's Cookbook, 1909 Check out our copy of the cookbook |
 Susan B. Anthony First Woman to Address the Washington Territorial Legislature |
- Harland v. Washington Territory (3 Wash. Terr. 131) -- Washington State Supreme Court case that took away women's suffrage in 1887
- Prominent Suffrgists Arrive in Spokane, June 28, 1909
- Snohomish County and the Woman Suffrage Campaign, 1909 - 1910
- Snohomish County Women and the 1910 Suffrage Campaign
- Susan B. Anthony Helps Found Washington Woman Suffrage Association on October 1, 1871
- The Case Against Woman Suffrage by the Massachusetts Anti-Suffrage Committee, 1915
- The Women's Suffrage Movement, 1854 - 1910
- This Shall Be the Land of Women: The Struggle for Western Women's Suffrage, 1860 - 1920
- Washington Equal Suffrage Association publishes Washington Women's Cook Book in Seattle in late 1908
- Washington State Constitutional Convention Rejects Woman Suffrage Amendment in August 1889
- Washington Territory Re-Enacts Woman Suffrage Law to Exclude Women from Juries on January 16, 1888
- Washington Women's History Consortium
- Washington Women Win and Lose the Vote Between 1883 and 1888
- Washington State Association of Colored Women's Clubs 1917-2008: History and Biographies
- Woman Suffrage Crusade, 1848 - 1920
- Woman Suffrage in Washington Territory Declared Unconstitutional in Nevada Bloomer Case on August 14, 1888
- Women Win School Suffrage on March 27, 1890
- Women's Votes, Women's Voices
Alalska-Pacific-Yukon Exposition (1909)
 Rev. Anna Howard Shaw National American Woman Suffrage Association, President |
 Avis Hunsicker, Anna Capwell, and Janet Stranack, who served as pages during National American Woman Suffrage Association convention, Seattle, July 8, 1909 |
 Votes for Women, v.1 no.1, October 1909 |
- Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle celebrates Suffrage Day on July 7, 1909
- "Celebrities at AYP Who Favor Womea Suffrage," The New Citizen issue v.1 no.1, October 1909
- Program for the 41st Annual Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Seattle, Washington, 1909
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Suffragists join The Mountaineers' Club 1909 outing to Mount Rainier and plant an A-Y-P Exposition
flag and a "Votes For Women" banner at the summit of Columbia Crest on July 30, 1909 -
Woman Suffrage Leaders Speak from Seattle Pulpits and The Reverend Dr. Anna Howard Shaw
Speaks at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition on Sunday, July 4, 1909
Washington's Leading Suffragists
 Sarah Yesler |
 Emma Smith DeVoe |
 Missouri T.B. Hanna |
 Abigail Scott Duniway |
 Alice Lord |
Bertha Knight Landes |
 Mary Arkwright Hutton |
 Nettie Craig Asberry |
- Abigail Scott Duniway -- Writer, New Northwest founder; Washington Equal Suffrage Association co-founder; Helped pass suffrage amendments in Idaho, Washignton, and Oregon
- Alice Lord -- Labor Activist; Organized the Seattle Waitresses Union
- Bertha Knight Landes -- First Female Mayor of Seattle and First of a major American city
- Emma Smith DeVoe
- Missouri T.B. Hanna -- First Female Newspaper Publisher in Washington; publisher of Votes for Women and The New Citizen; Founder of the Snohomish County Press Association; Recognized as the "Mother of Journalism" in Washington State
- Nettie Craig Asberry -- Founding Member of the Tacoma NAACP, Music Teacher, Suffragist, Founder of the Clover Leaf Art Club
- Nettie Craig Asberry
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Nettie Craig Asberry: A Pillar of Tacoma's African American Community
(from Columbia Magazine, Fall 2005, v.19 no.3) -
Nettie J. Asbery: African American Club Woman of the Pacific Northwest
(from African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000 by Quintard Taylor) - Nettie J. Asberry Papers
- Sarah Yesler -- Leading advocate of women's suffrage
Digital Collections
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University of Washington Libraries Digital Collection
(Type the word "suffrage" in the Search All Collections search engine) -
Washington State University Libraries Digital Collection
(Type the word "suffrage" in the Search All Collections search engine)
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Washington Women Leaders
 Christine Gregoire, Governor of Washington State (2005 - Present) Native of Auburn, WA 2nd female governor of Washington State 1st female Attorney General for Washington State (1993 - 2004) |
 Patty Murray, U.S. Senator (1993 - Present) Native of Bothell, WA 1st female U.S. Senator to represent Washington State |
 Maria Cantwell, U.S. Senator (2001 - Present) native of Auburn, WA 2nd female U.S. Senator to represent Washington State |
 Dixy Lee Ray (1977 - 1981) native of Tacoma, WA 1st female governor of Washington State |
- Alice Kerr -- Mayor of Edmonds
- Clara McCarty -- First Female Superintendent of Pierce County Schools and First Woman Elected to Office in Pierce County
- Julia Butler Hansen Congresswoman for the 3rd Congressional District
- Stella Alexander -- First woman to be elected to the Issauah City Council and Mayor of Issaquah
Women of Controversy
 Narcissa Whitman |
- Columbia Maternal Association
- Dr. Marcus Whitman Establishes a Mission at Waiilatpu on October 16, 1836
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Missionary Women Organize the Columbia Maternal Association, The First Women's Club
in the Northwest, September 3, 1838 - The Spokane Mission: Nine Years of Love and Conflict
- Whitman College Named in Honor of Marcus & Narcissa Whitman
- Whitman County Named in Honor of Marcus & Narcissa Whitman
- Whitman County: Thumbnail History
- Whitman Massacre
- Whitman Mission National Historic Site
Women of Merit
 Bertha Pitts Campbell |
 Nora B. Adams |
 Thelma DeWitty |
- Bertha Pitts Campbell -- One of the founders of Christian Friends for Racial Equality and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority
- Mexican American Women in Washington
- Nora B. Adams -- Educator
- Thelma DeWitty -- Seattle's First African American Teacher
- Women's Stories -- diaries and stories of women of Washington State during its early years
- Women's Stories ~ Women's Lives: The Snohomish County Women's Legacy Project
Men as Supporters of Women's Suffrage
 John R. Rogers Third State Governor of Washington, |
 David Denny |
 George Fletcher Cotterill |
 Arthur Denny |
 Walter J. Thompson (left) Tacoma Banker and Philanthropist |
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- Arthur Denny Proposes White-Woman Suffrage Amendment in the Territorial Legislature's First Session on February 28, 1854
- David Denny
- George Fletcher Cotterill --Helped frame the Constitutional amendment for Women's Suffrage in 1909
- John R. Rogers, Third State Governor of Washington
- Walter J. Thompson -- Tacoma Banker and Philanthropist
- Washington Territory Governors Papers, 1877 - 1891
