register to vote in the US Virgin Islands Uruguay Paulina Luisi Janicki (1875–1949) – leader of the feminist movement in Uruguay, first Uruguayan woman to earn a medical degree in Uruguay (1909) Venezuela Carmen Clemente Travieso (1900–1983) – journalist and women's rights activist Yishuv Rosa Welt-Straus (1856–1938) – suffragist and feminist Major suffrage organizations Alpha Suffrage Club – believed to be the first black women's suffrage association in the United States; began in Chicago, Illinois, in 1913 under the initiative of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Belle Squire American Equal Rights Association – from 1866 to 1869, early attempt at a national organization by Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony and others American Woman Suffrage Association – American suffrage organization formed in 1869 by Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell after a split in the American Equal Rights Association; it joined NAWSA in 1890 Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Españolas – Spanish organization from 1918 to 1936 Associazione per la donna – early Italian organization founded in 1896 with an emphasis on defending women's rights Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government – American organization devoted to women's suffrage in Massachusetts; active from 1901 to 1920 Bulgarskiat Zhenski Suyut – Bulgarian organization from 1901 to 1944 Canadian Women's Suffrage Association – founded in 1877, name changed in 1883 to Toronto Women's Suffrage Association College Equal Suffrage League – U.S. group founded in 1900 by Maud Wood Park and Inez Haynes Irwin to attract younger women to the movement; merged with the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1908 Congressional Union – radical U.S. organization formed in 1913 to campaign for a constitutional amendment for women's voting rights; led by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns; in 1915 changed its name to National Woman's Party Danske Kvindeforeningers Valgretsforbund (Danish Women's Society's Suffrage Union) – founded in 1898 Dublin Women's Suffrage Association – major Irish organization Equal Franchise Society – created and joined by American women of wealth, a politically active organization conducted within a socially comfortable milieu Federação Brasileira pelo Progresso Feminino – Brazilian organisation from 1922 French Union for Women's Suffrage – founded in 1909 to promote women's suffrage Fusen Kakutoku Domei – Japanese organisation from 1923 Greek League for Women's Rights – founded 1920 to promote women's political rights and suffrage Indiana Woman's Suffrage Association – founded in 1852 to help women gain the right to vote International Alliance of Women – founded