yourdailyqueer:Nora Houston (deceased)Gender: FemaleSexuality: LesbianDOB: 24 June 1883 RIP: 20 Fe
yourdailyqueer: Nora Houston (deceased)Gender: FemaleSexuality: LesbianDOB: 24 June 1883 RIP: 20 February 1942 Ethnicity: White - AmericanOccupation: Artist, suffragette, activist, art teacherNote: Houston, alongside Adele Goodman Clark worked to improve race relations in Virginia. They encouraged black women to vote, and helped them to register. Houston and Clark worked with black suffragists in Richmond, like Ora Brown Stokes Perry, to ensure that the city’s African American women could vote in the 1920 United States Presidential Election “without incident”. Houston and Clark also helped drive black women to the polls on election day. -- source link