Nellie Griswold Francis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Nellie Griswold Francis

Date of Birth: 07-Nov-1874

Place of Birth: Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Date of Death: 13-Dec-1969

Profession: suffragette, suffragist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Nellie F.
Griswold Francis (November 7, 1874 – December 13, 1969) was an African-American suffragist, civic leader, and civil rights activist.
Francis founded and led the Everywoman Suffrage Club, an African-American suffragist group which helped win women the right to vote in Minnesota.
She initiated, drafted, and lobbied for the adoption of a state anti-lynching bill that was signed into law in 1921.
When she and her lawyer husband, William T.
Francis, bought a home in a white neighborhood, they were the targets of a Ku Klux Klan terror campaign.
In 1927, she moved to Monrovia, Liberia with her husband when he was appointed U.S.
envoy to Liberia.
He died there from yellow fever in 1929.
Francis is one of 25 women honored for their roles in achieving the women's right to vote in the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial on the grounds of the State Capitol.