Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, who lived in New York City and Long Island, was a strategist, organizer, and major financial supporter of the Suffrage Movement.
Alva Vanderbilt Belmont
–Pursuits/Activities: Suffrage, Women's Rights
Pursuit/Activity: Women's Rights
Margaret Fuller
–Pursuit/Activity: Women's Rights
Margaret Fuller was a Transcendentalist, women’s rights advocate, and first woman reporter, foreign correspondent, and war correspondent for the Roman Revolution.
Horace Greeley
–Pursuits/Activities: Abolitionism, Unionism, Women's Rights
Horace Greeley was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune and briefly served as a congressman from New York.
Louisine Elder Havemeyer
–Pursuits/Activities: Suffrage, Women's Rights
Louisine Elder Havemeyer of New York City and Islip, Long Island was a militant suffragist. She was a suffragist speaker, activist, and contributor.
Victoria Earle Matthews
–Pursuits/Activities: AfAm Rights, Women's Rights
Victoria Earle Matthews was a journalist and author. Delivered speech, “The Value of Race Literature,” at the First National Congress of Colored Women.
Elizabeth Oakes Smith
–Pursuit/Activity: Women's Rights
Elizabeth Oakes Smith lived in Patchogue, Long Island. She was an eloquent speaker and writer who championed women’s rights.