Image published by Randolph Hollingsworth in H-Kentucky on Friday, September 2, 2022

NVWT marker for Nugent sisters

Image for National Votes for Women Trail marker for the Nugent sisters - Georgia Anne Nugent (c1872-1940), Alice Emma Nugent (1876-1971), and Mollie Nugent Williams (1867-1936). The marker is located at 845 South 6th Street, Louisville, KY 40203
@38.2431721058006, -85.76204922883511

The marker content states: "Nugent Sisters, African American suffragists and community leaders. Advocated for voting rights on local, state & national levels. Lived here 1919-1971. (William C. Pomeroy Foundation 2022, [marker no.] 202)."

Discussion published by KyWoman Suffrage in H-Kentucky on Saturday, May 29, 2021

The Nugent Sisters: Georgia (circa 1872), Alice (1875), Ida (1880) and Mollie (1867)

This biosketch was written by Dr. Carol Mattingly, Professor Emerita of English at the University of Louisville. For her full project on “African American Women and Suffrage in Louisville,” visit https://arcg.is/1O8muW.

Discussion published by KyWoman Suffrage in H-Kentucky on Monday, May 24, 2021

Maudellen Brice Lanier (1881-1972), civil rights activist

This biosketch was written by Dr. Carol Mattingly, Professor Emerita of English at the University of Louisville. For her full project on “African American Women and Suffrage in Louisville,” visit https://arcg.is/1O8muW.

Maudellen Brice was born to Louis M. and Harriet Enty Brice in Pittsburgh in 1867. In 1900, Maudellen Brice married Marshall Bell (M.B.) Lanier, a Presbyterian minister. The census lists her as a stenographer at the time.

Image published by KyWoman Suffrage in H-Kentucky on Thursday, May 20, 2021

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Lucy Flint with Madam C.J. Walker

Lucy Flint (1864-1916) of Louisville, director of the Colored Orphans Home and bookkeeper for several organizations such as the Baptist Foreign Mission Board and the Baptist Women's Educational Convention, in a photo taken in 1911 when she is working for Madam C.J. Walker. Flint is in the back seat of the car at the far right of the photograph.

Image published by KyWoman Suffrage in H-Kentucky on Wednesday, May 19, 2021

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Lizzie Crittenden c1915

Photo of Lizzie Crittenden (1841-1919) snipped from "Baptist Women's Education Convention officers," in the Golden Jubilee of the General Association of Colored Baptists in Kentucky: The Story of 50 Years' Work from 1865-1915. Parrish, C. H., editor. Louisville, KY: Mayes Print. Co., 1915. See original at the Digital Collections of the New York Public Library:  https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-eba3-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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