suffragist
noun
suf·frag·ist
ˈsəf-ri-jist 
: one who advocates extension of suffrage especially to women
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From 1910 to 2001, the Liberty Crest Apartments were known as the Lorton Reformatory, a prison in Lorton, Virginia that housed inmates from Washington, D.C.
It is more widely known as the site where many suffragists were held after the Silent Sentinels pickets at the White House in 1917.
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Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 19 Apr. 2025
This influence can be felt in Democratic congresswomen wearing white to the State of the Union addresses in recent years, in support of women’s rights and as a nod to the suffragist movement.
—Leah Bourne, Glamour, 25 Mar. 2025
The first major suffragist march on Washington took place 112 years ago this month.
—Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2025
The president was also profoundly contemptuous of women, kept his true opposition to female suffrage carefully hidden, and allowed the suffragists who silently held banners outside the White House to be repeatedly attacked by mobs, beaten, and jailed.
—Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
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Celia Fernandez, CNBC, 19 Apr. 2025
This influence can be felt in Democratic congresswomen wearing white to the State of the Union addresses in recent years, in support of women’s rights and as a nod to the suffragist movement.
—Leah Bourne, Glamour, 25 Mar. 2025
The first major suffragist march on Washington took place 112 years ago this month.
—Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 25 Mar. 2025
The president was also profoundly contemptuous of women, kept his true opposition to female suffrage carefully hidden, and allowed the suffragists who silently held banners outside the White House to be repeatedly attacked by mobs, beaten, and jailed.
—Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
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“Suffragist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/suffragist. Accessed 15 May. 2025.
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suffragist
noun
suf·frag·ist
ˈsəf-ri-jəst
: a person who supports extending voting rights especially to women
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