Oh Bury Me Not
Even though her husband was supportive of feminism, suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) often preferred the company of women -- even when planning for her burial. She made independent grave-plotting plans and decided she wanted to be entombed with a female companion rather than her husband.

You Girls Just Make Too Much Trouble The women of New Jersey were granted voting rights in 1790. But, after elections began changing as result of New Jersey women's new voting right, women's suffrage was rescinded in 1807.

Sing for Your Suffrage
Alva Vanderbilt Belmont and Elsa Maxwell wrote and produced an opera for the cause of women's suffrage. The Opera, Melinda and her Sisters, was performed only once, and netted $8000 for the Congressional Union for Women's Suffrage.

Pass the Sugar and the Suffrage, Please
Esther Morris (1814 -1902) was instrumental in getting suffrage in Wyoming, where she entertained influential political leaders (male, natch) at tea parties. Wyoming's "Female Suffrage Act" was passed 1869, and Morris was appointed the nation's first female justice of the peace.

And Last, the Original Catch-22
Virginia Louisa Minor (1824 - 1894) sued the registrar of St. Louis in 1875 for refusal to register her to vote. The case went to the Supreme Court, where Chief Justice Morrison Waite delivered the Court's opinion that, "Women were excluded from suffrage in nearly all the States by the express provision of their Constitution and laws. The right of suffrage, when granted will be protected... but in order to claim protection she must first show that she has the right."

- From the Women's Action Connective