diarist Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1862–1931) – journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement Lilian Welsh (1858–1938) – physician, educator, and advocate for women's health Ruza Wenclawska (1889–1977) – factory inspector and trade union organizer Marion Craig Wentworth (1872–1942) – playwright Nettie L. White (c. 1850–1921), president of the District of Columbia Woman Suffrage Association Margaret Fay Whittemore (1884–1937) – vice-president of the National Woman's Party 1925 Emma Howard Wight (1863–1935) – Virginia suffragist; author Mary Holloway Wilhite (1831–1892) – physician, philanthropist; woman's suffrage and women's rights leader Frances Willard (1839–1898) – leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and International Council of Women, lecturer, writer Louise Collier Willcox (1865–1929) – honorary vice-president of the Virginia Equal Suffrage League Maud E. Craig Sampson Williams (1880–1958) – suffragette from Texas; formed the El Paso Negro Woman's Civic and Equal Franchise League Ella B. Ensor Wilson (1838–1913), social reformer; Kansas suffragist Alice Ames Winter (1865–1944) – litterateur, author, clubwoman, suffragist Emma Wold (1871–1950) – president of the College Equal Suffrage Association in Oregon, later headquarters secretary of the National Woman's Party Clara Snell Wolfe (1872–1970) – 1st Vice Chairman National Woman's Party and Chairman Ohio Branch Victoria Woodhull (1838–1927) – women's rights activist, first woman to speak before a committee of Congress, first female candidate for President of the United States, one of the first women to start a weekly newspaper (Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly,) activist for labor reforms, advocate of free love See also List of Alabama suffragists List of Alaska suffragists List of Arizona suffragists List of Arkansas suffragists List of California suffragists List of Colorado suffragists List of Delaware suffragists List of Florida suffragists List of Georgia (U.S. state) suffragists List of Hawaii suffragists List of Illinois suffragists List of Iowa suffragists List of Maine suffragists List of Missouri suffragists List of Montana suffragists List of Nevada suffragists List of New Jersey suffragists List of New Mexico suffragists List of North Dakota suffragists List of Ohio suffragists List of Pennsylvania suffragists List of Rhode Island suffragists List of South Dakota suffragists List of Texas suffragists List of Utah suffragists List of Virginia suffragists List of Wisconsin suffragists List of Wyoming suffragists United States Virgin Islands Bertha C. Boschulte (1906–2004) – Secretary of the St. Thomas Teacher's Association, which sued for women's suffrage in the territory in 1935 Edith L. Williams (1887–1987) – first woman to attempt to