Women's Suffrage Movement

Learn about the women who played a role in the national women's suffrage movement that eventually guaranteed more than 26 million women the right to vote through the passage of the 19th amendment.

Learn about the women who played a role in the national women's suffrage movement that eventually guaranteed more than 26 million women the right to vote through the passage of the 19th amendment.

Grimké Sisters | Carolina Snaps

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Although best known as fierce abolitionists, Sarah and Angelina Grimké were the first South Carolina Women to publicly advocate for women's suffrage.
Rollin Sisters | Carolina Snaps

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Born into a free black family during Reconstruction, the Rollin sisters played a pivotal role in advancing women's suffrage in South Carolina. Frances, Lottie, and Louisa were prominent activists...
Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote
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Susan Pringle Frost, a mentor to the Pollitzer sisters, was the founder of the Charleston Equal Suffrage League. Anita Pollitzer went to work for that National American Women Suffrage Association...
Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote
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In the early twentieth century, a trio of sisters from Charleston, SC, known as the Pollitzer sisters (Carrie, Mabel, and Anita) embraced the opportunities for social reform. The Pollitzers came from...
Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote
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Support for women’s right to vote was growing in South Carolina. A custody battle and scandal between two legendary SC families gave the women’s suffrage movement a boost in SC. Lucy Pickens Dugas was...
Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote
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Beginning in 1899, the Poppenheim sisters published a monthly magazine called The Keystone . The magazine pointed out the manner in which the Confederate “Lost Cause” movement celebrated the...
Clubwomen, The Pollitzer Sisters & The Vote
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South Carolina, a mostly rural state in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was racially divided and impoverished after Reconstruction. Its economy was mainly agrarian, growing crops...
The Rollin Sisters | Sisterhood: SC Suffragists
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The Rollin Sisters are essentially silenced after Reconstruction, and are forced to move away from South Carolina due to the increasing violence by “Red Shirts”, and Ku Klux Klan members. In the fight...