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Thurston County Suffragist; Votes For Women contributor

Bernice Sapp

born: 9999
died: 9999
county: Thurston
Bernice Sapp, of Olympia, was one of the lead organizers for the suffrage cause in Thurston County. In 1909 she resigned as treasurer of the Olympia Suffrage Club to devote herself wholly to the poll list canvass of Thurston county voters. She urged all county canvassers to make carbon copies of the lists of names they established and to forward copies to WESA headqarters.

Resources:

Seattle General Hospital Nursery.

Three suffragists post signs advocating women's suffrage on the side of a low wood structure in Seattle. Asahel Curtis took this photogrpah for the Washington Equal Suffrage Association.

Ten raspberry pickers, all women, stand in a row at the edge of a raspberry field in Western Washington.

Three American Red Cross women wearing heavy coats and Red Cross caps, offer bottles of milk and doughnuts from baskets to rows of African American soldiers returning to Fort Lewis at the close of World War II. Photo by Turner Richards, Tacoma, WA.