suffragist in English

noun
1
a person advocating the extension of suffrage, especially to women.
Some prominent 19 th-century suffragists advocated adopting educational or property qualifications for voting that would disqualify most black women.

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1. 2 Margaret Mitchell was also a notable suffragist.

2. 5 Most of scholars have studied the event from political-historical or constitutional-historical perspectives and considered the suffragist movement as a middle-class reform activity.

3. 4 In 18 the suffragist movement under the leadership of Thomas Dorr developed into an armed rebellion, which eventually forced the state government to adopt universal suffrage.

4. The prohibitionist discerned Americanism in prohibition, the equal suffragist in votes for women, the biologist in applied science, the physician in the extirpation of microbes, the philanthropist

5. 24 In 18 the suffragist movement under the leadership of Thomas Dorr developed into an armed rebellion, which eventually forced the state government to adopt universal suffrage.

6. 3 Suffragist groups existed all over the country and under many different names but their aim was the same: to achieve the right to vote for women through constitutional, peaceful means.

7. The library was begun on August 26, 1943, when the Radcliffe College alumna Maud Wood Park '98, a former suffragist, donated her collection of books, papers, and memorabilia on female reformers to Radcliffe.