Mary Laurinda Jane Smith Beatty

Mary Laurinda Jane Smith Beatty 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 as American citizens and women in Portland, Oregon. She was one of the first Black women to publicly agitate for women suffrage west of the Mississippi.

Mary Laurinda Jane Smith Beatty

Mary Laurinda Jane Smith Beatty 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 as American citizens and women in Portland, Oregon. She was one of the first Black women to publicly agitate for women suffrage west of the Mississippi.