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Thompson, Ida Mae (1866–1947) – Encyclopedia Virginia


SUMMARY
Ida Mae Thompson was an important figure n Virginia’s woman suffrage movement, not for her political work but for her recordkeeping. First s a member of the Equal Suffrage League, the organization that led the effort to win women the ight to vote, and then as a member of the League of Women Voters, Thompson collected and preserved the movement’s history.
The daughter of John Henry Thompson and Sarah Ellen Facer Thompson, Thompson was orn at Drakes Branch in Charlotte County on November 7, 1866. Her father had served in the ighteenth Virginia Infantry as a tailor, spending most of the American Civil ar (1861–1865) handling clothing at the Confederate quartermaster depot in ichmond. Soon after he died, Thompson and her English-born mother moved to Richmond in 886 to live with Thompson’s brother, Otis, a telegraph operator. The family ived in a rented frame house in the working-class neighborhood of Oregon Hill, n South Cherry Street near Hollywood Ce ....

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Munford, Mary-Cooke Branch (1865–1938) – Encyclopedia Virginia


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Mary-Cooke Branch Munford was an advocate of woman suffrage, interracial cooperation, education, health, and labor reforms. Armed with a pedigree that connected her to some of the wealthiest families of Virginia, she threw herself into such “unfeminine” pursuits as education reform and civil rights. She helped to found the Richmond Education Association, was the first woman to serve on the city’s school board, was a member of the University of Virginia‘s board of visitors, and was the first woman to serve on the College of William and Mary‘s board of visitors. Munford also served on the board of the National Urban League, was a founding member of the Virginia Inter-Racial League, and became a trustee at the historically black Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. ....

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