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Lila Meade Valentine (1865-1921)
was one of the leaders among the Virginia women who organized
and fought for the right to vote. She led campaigns for
improvements in public education and public health in Virginia.
One of the founders of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia in
1909, she took an active part in the National Woman Suffrage
Association as well. Valentine lived to see women vote, but she
died one year after ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in
1920 before women campaigned and won election to public office
in Virginia. She was the acknowledged leader of a new generation
of Virginia women who sought and accepted leadership roles in
public life. In 1936 the General Assembly placed a memorial
plaque in the State Capitol honoring her services to humanity
and acknowledging her achievements in the struggle for woman
suffrage.
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Lila Meade Valentine.
Harriett Frismuth. Marble.
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Virginia
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