This episode of Ballot and Beyond, contributed by the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center, is written and read by Christine R. Valeriann, founder of the Women’s Equality Day Celebration across Maryland Coalition and a volunteer with Maryland Women’s Heritage Center.
As president of the Just Government League of Allegany County in rural Western Maryland, Mrs. Edward Harris led the organization at a critical time, through two of the most seminal moments in Maryland’s suffrage history. Her activism is well-documented, but in typical fashion for the time, she is always referred to as either Mrs. Edward Harris or Mrs. Edward H. Harris, Sr., and never credited under her own name, which was possibly Ellen. Under any name, she deserves her due as one of Maryland's leading suffragists.
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Sadie Jacobs Crockin | Visionary Jewish Suffragist
Ellen Newbold La Motte | Activist & Adventurer
Reverend Doctor Pauli Murray | The Will To Thrive
Laura Byrne | Serving Suffrage With A Smile
Emilie Doetsch | Lawyer & Journalist
Catherine Sweet | Foiled Early Voter
Edith Houghton Hooker | Dynamic Suffrage Driver
Margaret Brent | Colonial Suffragist
Billie Holiday | Voice of Protest
Mary Risteau | Early Elected State Delegate
DuBois Circle | Inspired Fighting Against Injustice
Florence & Bertha Trail | Sisters in the Struggle
Madeleine Ellicott | By Women, For Women
Quaker Women of Sandy Spring | Education & Equality
Dr. Lillian Welsh | Academic Voice for Suffrage
Harriet Tubman | Abolitionist & Suffragist
Mary Pickersgill | Star-Spangled Seamstress
Margaret Briggs Gregory Hawkins | Education is Power
Lilian Reeves Crawford | Local Suffrage Leader
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