Mary Laurinda Jane Smith Beatty

Biography

Mary Laurinda Jane Smith Beatty (February 1834 – September 28, 1899) was an African-American abolitionist and suffrage advocate who joined Abigail Scott Duniway, Maria P. Hendee, and Mary Ann King Lambert in 1872 to cast ballots in Portland, Oregon when women were not yet afforded the right to vote. She was one of the first African-American women to publicly agitate for women's suffrage west of the Mississippi River.

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