New England Suffrage League was an organization of black voters in the United States. Its fourth annual meeting was held at Unity Hall in Hartford in 1907.[1] The group addressed the Brownsville Affair.[2] Its fifth annual meeting was held in 1908.[3]
William Monroe Trotter was an organizer of the group.[4] It was established as the Boston Suffrage League before being expanded.[5] The group advocated for schools in the South, against lynching, against segregation on interstate carriers, and for enforcement of the 15th amendment.[5][6] He and his wife, Geraldine Pindell Trotter, edited the Boston Guardian newspaper.[5]
David E. Crawford worked with the group.[7]
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edit- ^ Staff, Hartford History Center. "LibGuides: October 1920: Celebrating the Centennial of Women's Suffrage: Brief History of the Suffrage Fight". hplct.libguides.com.
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/1907/10/08/archives/president-is-denounced-new-england-suffrage-league-takes-up-the.html
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/1908/09/29/archives/negroes-attack-taft-call-for-new-england-suffrage-league-meeting.html
- ^ "175 Years of Struggle - Page 178". archives.ccplohio.org.
- ^ a b c "Dorchester Illustration 2375 William Monroe Trotter and Geraldine Pindell Trotter | Dorchester Historical Society".
- ^ Greenidge, Kerri K. (19 November 2019). Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter. Liveright. ISBN 978-1-63149-535-9.
- ^ Richardson, Clement (1919). "The National Cyclopedia of the Colored Race".