The 19th NINE
"The First Colored Women Voters Club of Ettrick, Virginia."
The 19th Nine
The 19th Nine were all faculty members from the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute to vote in the November 1920 election. They were among some of the first African American women who voted after the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that granted women the right to vote. To secure their ballot, they had previously registered to vote and paid a poll tax of $1.50.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Women
Mary Branch, 1st AA black woman president
Anna Lindsay
Edna Colson
Edwina Wright
Eva Connor
Evie Carpenter (Spencer) - pending primary citation
Delta Sigma Theta Women
Odelle Green
Women with no (known) BGLO sorority affiliation
Johnnella Frazer (Jackson) - educator, musician, and civil rights activist, father (college president)
Nannie Nichols
*Known - Known to the author.*
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Edwina Wright -
Father - Richard Robert Wright Sr.