New Hampshire Magazine
Learn about the work and impact of these Granite State female activists
March 16, 2021
This series will run throughout the month of March, highlighting historical female Granite Staters each week.
Leading female suffragist from New Hampshire
White was a leader in the women’s suffrage movement of New Hampshire, with many describing her as the leading suffragist. Married to a wealthy stagecoach operator, she took on the role of philanthropist as well. Fighting for human rights throughout her lifetime, White was also deeply involved in the antislavery and alcohol temperance movements.
Working not only on the suffragist movement in New Hampshire, but within the national movement as well, White collaborated with well-known suffragettes such as Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone.
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The 1913 Women s Suffrage Parade marches down Pennsylvania Avenue, in view of the Capitol Building (Credit: Library of Congress)
In 1912, the women’s suffrage movement, founded almost 60 years before by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, had reached a stalemate. The largest suffrage association, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, or NAWSA, was working at a state level: traveling state to state and lobbying for changes to state constitutions. Six Western states had granted female suffrage before 1912, and five states would grant women s suffrage in 1912 and 1913.
[1] However, the debate over women’s suffrage had yet to reach the House of Representatives, and repeated petitions presented in Washington by delegations of suffragettes had achieved no action.
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But the most striking Jew in the abolitionist movement was a Polish immigrant born Ernestine Louise Potowski and later known by her married name, Ernestine Rose who became a prominent advocate for abolition, as well as free thought (in her case, atheism) and women’s rights.
She once boasted, “I was a rebel at the age of five.” She sued in civil court to dissolve the marriage arranged for her by her rabbi father, and left home for Germany as a teenager, where the Prussian king granted her residency despite her Jewish origins. She supported herself selling her invention of perfumed paper for use as a room deodorizer.