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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonpartisan American nonprofit political organization.Founded in 1920, its ongoing major activities include registering voters, providing voter information, boosting voter turnout and advocating for voting rights.
Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins (1952–), first woman of color to serve as president of the League of Women Voters and the only one in the first hundred years of the League. [9] Florence Kelley (1859–1932), a social and political reformer active in NAWSA and instrumental in founding the League of Women Voters, the National Consumers League and the ...
In addition to the national League, women's suffrage organizations in the states also reorganized as state leagues of women voters in 1920. In 2020, the League of Women Voters comprises a national organization and more than 700 state and local leagues in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands and Hong Kong.
The League of Women Voters hosted several forums this month in Boyne City, Petoskey and Mackinaw City on the same topic. Their last forum is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on May 15 at the Charlevoix ...
Marie Stuart Edwards, c. 1920. Marie Stuart Edwards was a suffragist and social reformer from Peru, Indiana.She served as president of the Woman's Franchise League of Indiana (1917–1919); publicity director of National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) during the Nineteenth Amendment's passage in 1920; and vice president of the National League of Women Voters (1921–1923).
Pages in category "Members of the League of Women Voters" The following 82 pages are in this category, out of 82 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The national board of the League of Women Voters, a nonpartisan, grassroots organization dedicated to voting rights and democracy, disbanded the 70-year-old Park Ridge chapter recently despite the ...
In 1919, she cast the deciding vote in a vote held by the St. Louis League of Women Voters that would allow African-American women to serve on the board. Just two years later, Gellhorn, along with the rest of the League, left the Advisory Board, a collective of St. Louis women's organizations, because the organization would not allow African ...