Helen Vickroy Austin (1829–1921) – journalist, horticulturist, suffragist Rosa Miller Avery (1830–1894) – American abolitionist, political reformer, suffragist, writer Elnora Monroe Babcock (1852–1934) – pioneer leader in the suffrage movement; chair of the National Woman Suffrage Association's press department Eugenia M. Bacon (1853–1933) – suffragist Adella Brown Bailey (1860–1937) – politician and suffragist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) – African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, and early leader in the civil rights movement Bertha Hirsch Baruch – writer, president of the Los Angeles Suffrage Association Helen Valeska Bary (1888–1973) – suffragist, researcher, and social reformer Octavia Williams Bates (1846–1911) – suffragist, clubwoman, author Martia L. Davis Berry (1844–1894) – treasurer, Kansas Equal Suffrage Association Clara Bancroft Beatley (1858–1923) – educator, lecturer, author; chair, Moral Education Department, Boston Equal Suffrage Association Frances Estill Beauchamp (1860–1923) - Kentucky temperance activist, social reformer, lecturer, suffragist Alva Belmont (1853–1933) – founder of the Political Equality League that was in 1913 merged into the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage Elsie Lincoln Benedict (1885–1970), suffragist leader representing Colorado for the Women's Right to Vote Kate Himrod Biggers (1849–1935) – president of the Oklahoma Woman's Suffrage Association Emily Montague Mulkin Bishop (1858–1916) – lecturer, instructor, author, pioneer suffragist Irene Moorman Blackstone (1872–after 1944) – African-American suffragist instrumental in integrating the suffrage fight in New York Alice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950) – journalist, activist Antoinette Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) – co-founder, with Lucy Stone, of the American Woman Suffrage Association Henry Browne Blackwell (1825–1909) – founded Woman's Journal with Lucy Stone Katherine Devereux Blake (1858–1950) – educator, suffragist, peace activist Lillie Devereux Blake (1833–1913) – writer, suffragist, reformer Lucretia Longshore Blankenburg (1845–1937) – suffragist, reformer Isabella Williams Blaney (1854–1933) – suffragist, politician Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch (1856–1940) – writer (contributor to History of Woman Suffrage), founded Women's Political Union, daughter of pioneering activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton Amelia Bloomer (1818–1894) – women's rights and temperance advocate; her name was associated with women's clothing reform style known as bloomers Anna Whitehead Bodeker (1826–1904) – leader of the earliest attempts to organize for suffrage in Virginia; co-founder and inaugural president of Virginia State Woman Suffrage Association, the first suffrage association in Virginia Marietta Bones (1842–1901) – suffragist, social reformer, philanthropist Helen Varick Boswell (1869–1942) – member of the Woman's National Republican Association and the General Federation of Women's Clubs Lucy Gwynne Branham (1892–1966) – professor, organizer, lobbyist, active in the National Women's Party and