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- 4. This activist was born into slavery and was excluded from the suffrage organizations because of her race. She was also well known as a journalist and an anti-lynching activist.
- 5. This activist was a wealthy Long Island suffragist, and one of the most instrumental leaders of the local suffrage movement.
- 8. This activist was a socialite who lobbied for prison reform, women and children's rights and equality for Blacks. She collapsed and died after delivering a speech asking President Wilson, "How long must women wait for liberty?"
- 9. Her words – “Lifting as we climb” – became the motto of the National Association of Colored Women(NACW, the group she helped found with Ida B. Wells.
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- 1. Known as champion of the Everglades, she also went to Tallahassee to urge legislators to pass the 19th Amendment.
- 2. This activist is called the Mother of Women's Swimming in America and was an ardent suffragist.
- 3. This activist and educator who founded a school for African American girls that became a well-known university became a champion for civil rights and an advisor to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman.
- 6. An advocate for people with disabilities, this activist was left deaf and blind from a childhood illness. She famously said, "The inferiority of women is man-made."
- 7. This activist was considered the PR genius behind the parades and protests of the most militant phase of the suffrage movement.
- 8. This activist founded a newspaper called "The Lily," a newspaper solely dedicated to women and is known for promoting a change in dress standards for women that would be less restrictive in regular activities.