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Your 19th Amendment Moment: Black Women’s Suffrage in Oregon

Meet Harriet “Hattie” Redmond (1862-1952)

By Cathy Meyer

Courtesy Oreg. Hist. Soc. Research Library, bb09628

As I attempted to educate myself about Oregon history, I found inspiring stories of women in our “backyard” fighting for the right to vote. Even though Black women were excluded from white suffrage groups, the impact of their support to the movement was significant. In 1896, African American women organized local women’s clubs and eventually on the National scale with Mary Church Terrell as the first president of the National Association of Colored Women. In 1916, the NACW passed a resolution to support the woman suffrage amendment.

There were many influential African American women that fought for the right to vote in Oregon and the nation. Harriet “Hattie” Redmond was one of them.

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Your 19th Amendment Moment: Women’s Suffrage in Oregon

By Cindy Parker

The fight for Women’s Suffrage here in Oregon took 42 years and 6 different votes, more than any other state. Led early on by Abigail Scott Duniway, it took another generation to finally succeed in 1912, incidentally the same year as Eugene-Lane AAUW was founded.

Esther Pohl Lovejoy was the second woman graduate of the University of Oregon medical school (1894) and appointed the first woman city health officer in Portland. Her dedication to public health was underscored by the death of a young son, Freddy, due to contaminated milk. She and others recognized that “men do not have society’s best interests at heart” and in order to achieve the goals of pure food, clean water, and safe workplaces women needed to be able to influence policies through the ballot.

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AAUW Eugene-Lane County Featured on KXCR 90.7 Radio in Florence!

CHECK US OUT ON KXCR 90.7 FM RADIO!

AAUW’s Wendy Cook, SMJ House’s Leah Murray, and KXCR Program Manager Larry Bloomfield converse about AAUW, the SMJ House, the 19th Centennial, Kappy Eaton, and a host of other fun tidbits. (28 minutes)

KXCR Interview