suffragist
noun
suf·frag·ist
ˈsəf-ri-jist 
: one who advocates extension of suffrage especially to women
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This was 50 years before the 19th Amendment gave the right to vote to all women in the U.S.
Led by female attorney Murat Masterson, suffragists introduced a bill to enfranchise women in 1883.
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Calvin Schermerhorn, The Conversation, 25 Apr. 2024
Alice Paul — the pioneering suffragist played by Taub who fought for years to win the right to vote, then immediately turned her attention to writing the Equal Rights Amendment, unpassed to this day — was also, of course, imperfect.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2024
By around 1870, women’s suffragists began advocating for Arizona to follow Wyoming, Colorado and Utah in giving women the right to vote.
—Calvin Schermerhorn, The Conversation, 25 Apr. 2024
And by the 1910s, suffragists — those advocating that women should have the right to vote — staged pageants to highlight women’s contributions to America.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 15 May 2024
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Calvin Schermerhorn, The Conversation, 25 Apr. 2024
Alice Paul — the pioneering suffragist played by Taub who fought for years to win the right to vote, then immediately turned her attention to writing the Equal Rights Amendment, unpassed to this day — was also, of course, imperfect.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2024
By around 1870, women’s suffragists began advocating for Arizona to follow Wyoming, Colorado and Utah in giving women the right to vote.
—Calvin Schermerhorn, The Conversation, 25 Apr. 2024
And by the 1910s, suffragists — those advocating that women should have the right to vote — staged pageants to highlight women’s contributions to America.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 15 May 2024
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suffragist
noun
suf·frag·ist
ˈsəf-ri-jəst
: a person who supports extending voting rights especially to women
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