Anna Howard Shaw

Anna Howard Shaw, c. 1923. A Methodist minister and a physician, Shaw (1847-1919) was a central leader of the suffrage movement in America. She worked with Susan B. Anthony in the National American Woman Suffrage Association and served as its president from 1904-15, attending the Alabama Equal Suffrage Association state convention during her final year in office.

1923 photograph of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw
Courtesy of Library of Congress
1923 photograph of Dr. Anna Howard Shaw