1874 - 1969
Nellie Griswold Francis American Activist
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| Birthday |
7th November, 1874
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| Birthplace |
Nashville, Tennessee
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| Died |
13th December, 1969
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| Place of Death |
Nashville, Tennessee
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| Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation Text |
Suffragist, anti-lynching activist
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| Occupation |
Activist
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Nellie F. Griswold Francis (November 7, 1874 – December 13, 1969) was an African-American suffragist, civic leader, and civil rights activist. Francis founded and led the Everywoman Suffrage Club, an African-American suffragist group which helped win women the right to vote in Minnesota. She initiated, drafted, and lobbied for the adoption of a state anti-lynching bill that was signed into law in 1921. When she and her lawyer husband, William T. Francis, bought a home in a white neighborhood, they were the targets of a Ku Klux Klan terror campaign. In 1927, she moved to Monrovia, Liberia, with her husband when he was appointed U.S. envoy to Liberia. He died there from yellow fever in 1929. Francis is one of 25 women honored for their roles in achieving the women's right to vote in the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial on the grounds of the State Capitol.
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