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A History of Midwifery in the United States: The Midwife Said Fear Not. New York, NY: Springer Publishing Company, LLC. ISBN 978-0-8261-2537-8. Tinling, Marion (1986). Women Remembered: A Guide to Landmarks of Women's History in the United States. New York, NY: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-23984-3.
Georgia Men's League for Woman Suffrage. [5] Georgia Woman Equal Suffrage League, formed in 1913. [5] [4] Georgia Woman Suffrage Association (GWSA). [5] Georgia Young People's Suffrage Association, created in 1913. [4] [6] Muscogee Equal Franchise League, formed in 1913. [7] [4] National Woman's Party of Georgia, formed in 1917. [8] National ...
Eva L. Sloan: [53] First female lawyer in Milledgeville, Georgia [Baldwin County, Georgia] Alene Hardin (c. 1918): [54] First female lawyer in Macon, Georgia [Bibb County, Georgia] Faye Sanders Martin (1956): [55] First woman to practice law in Bulloch County, Georgia. She would later become the first female Ogeechee Judicial Circuit judge. [56]
Georgia Tech President Blake R. Van Leer. Carlos Valdes, actor and singer; Blake R. Van Leer, President of Georgia Tech, the first to admit women and fought against segregationist Governor Griffin; Ella Lillian Wall Van Leer, artist and architect, women's rights activist; Fernando Velasco, football player; born in New York
The first women's suffrage group in Georgia, the Georgia Woman Suffrage Association (GWSA), was formed in 1892 by Helen Augusta Howard. Over time, the group, which focused on "taxation without representation" grew and earned the support of both men and women.
19th-century women from Georgia (country) (3 C, 14 P) 20th-century women from Georgia (country) (7 C, 1 P) 21st-century women from Georgia (country) (7 C, 15 P)
Women's suffrage in Georgia (U.S. state) (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "History of women in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.
Mary Musgrove (Muscogee name, Coosaponakeesa, c. 1700 –1765) was a leading figure in early Georgia history. She was the daughter of Edward Griffin, an English-born trader from Charles Town in the Province of Carolina, and a Muscogee Creek mother.