The National Collaborative for Women's History Sites (NCWHS) is leading the effort to develop a National Votes for Women Trail (NVWT), originally as a part of the celebrations commemorating the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Image for National Votes for Women Trail marker for Eugenia B. Farmer - located at Trinity Episcopal Church, 326 Madison Avenue, Covington KY @39.0874177,-84.5807303
The marker content states: "Eugenia B. Farmer statewide suffrage leader. Led fight for women's school suffrage in Ky. Helped host state suffrage conventon here in 1897. (William C. Pomeroy Foundation 2021, [marker no.] 113)
Some questions have come up recently about examples within the Kentucky suffrage movement of black and white women working together to secure voting rights.
Randolph Hollingsworth has written about one instance in 1915 in Bell County as reported in the Kentucky Equal Rights Association Minutes. You can find information about it here: https://networks.h-net.org/node/2289/blog/2195693/working-across-racial-boundaries-bell-county-womens-suffrage
Submitted as a Biosketch for the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project
Submitted as a Biosketch for the Kentucky Woman Suffrage Project
