state legislature in the Southern United States H. Maria George Colby (1844–1910) – journalist, activist, suffragist Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) – in South Bristol, New York, 1848, was the first woman in the U.S. to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights Jennie Collins (1828–1887) – labor reformer, humanitarian, and suffragist Mattie E. Coleman (1870–1943) – physician, suffragist Sarah Tarleton Colvin (1865–1949) – chairman of the Minnesota chapter of the National Woman's Party, arrested during the "Watchfire for Freedom" demonstrations Helen Appo Cook (1837–1913) – prominent African American community activist and leader in the women's club movement Ida Craft (1861–1947) – known as the Colonel, took part in Suffrage Hikes Emma Amelia Cranmer (1858–1937) – reformer, suffragist, writer Minnie Fisher Cunningham (1882–1964) – first executive secretary of the League of Women Voters, member of the National American Women's Suffrage Association Lucile Atcherson Curtis (1894–1986) – first woman in what became the US Foreign Service Martha E. Sewall Curtis (1858–1915) – president, Woburn (Massachusetts) Equal Suffrage League; State lecturer, Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren (1825–1889) – writer, translator, anti-suffragist Lucinda Lee Dalton (1847–1925) – Mormon feminist and writer Maria Thompson Daviess (1872–1924) – co-founder and vice-president of the Equal Suffrage League chapter in Nashville, Tennessee; organizer of the Equal Suffrage League chapter in Madison, Tennessee. Carrie Chase Davis (1863–1953) – physician, suffragist Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis (1813–1876) – a founder of the New England Woman Suffrage Association; active with the National Woman Suffrage Association; co-arranged and presided at the first National Women's Rights Convention Jesse Leech Davisson (1860–1940) – suffragist active in Ohio Cornelia De Bey (1860–1948) – homeopath, politician, suffragist, educator Emma Smith DeVoe (1848–1927) – leading Washington State suffragist, founded the National Council of Women Voters Addie Whiteman Dickerson (1878–1940) – African American clubwoman and suffragist Mamie Dillard (1874–1954) – African American educator, clubwoman and suffragist Mary L. Doe (1836–1913) – first president of the Michigan State Equal Suffrage Association Rheta Childe Dorr (1868–1948) – journalist, suffragist newspaper editor, writer, and political activist Julia Dorsey (1850–1919) — African-American suffragist from Maryland Eva Craig Graves Doughty (1852–1929) – president, Grand Rapids (Michigan) Equal Suffrage Association Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) – African-American social reformer, orator, writer, statesman Wilhelmine Kekelaokalaninui Widemann Dowsett (1861–1929) – Native Hawaiian suffragist, organized the National Women's Equal Suffrage Association of Hawaii Anne Dallas Dudley (1876–1955) – suffrage activist; in 1920, she, along with