African American Women and the Drive for Suffrage
minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, brought together a group of
thirty New Jersey women’s temperance societies in Trenton to generate more interest in
missionary societies, civic, literary, business, and political clubs to found the New Jersey
and New Brunswick school principal Ella M. Rice (1863–1899) was elected treasurer.
Randolph served as federation president for twelve years.
existing groups.
Ratification and the Vote
Florence Spearing Randolph
National Cyclopedia of the Colored Race, 1919
Excerpt from letter, July 31, 1917, MC 1433
New Jersey Woman’s Suffrage Association
Records
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