These articles are written for the Muncie/Delaware County, Indiana League of Women Voters newsletter. The link will take you to the site’s collection of the Forgotten Foremothers series where the most recent articles are archived. Below are a few select favorites that are not on the LWVIN site.
- Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Born 1825, African-American poet and suffragist - Celia, 18
An enslaved woman put on trial for murder in 1855 - Rosa May Billinghurst
Born 1875, disabled suffragist who used her wheelchair in protests - Daisy Bates
Driven by the violent murder of her mother in 1914, she fought for racial justice - Fannie Lou Hamer
A powerful speaker and activist who fought throughout the 1950s and ’60s for the vote - Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826, an outspoken suffragist who collected a list of overlooked women inventors - “Stagecoach Mary” Fields
A rough-talking, gun-toting who delivered mail by stagecoach in the 1890s - Mary Garret Hay
Hoosier-born suffragist and lifelong companion of League founder Carrie Chapman Catt
Kathryn S. Gardiner 