Adella Hunt Logan
(1863-1915)
“[Adella Hunt Logan] strove to spur often frightened or otherwise reluctant black women to political action through gaining access to the ballot; she lobbied for equal pay as well, and ultimately espoused women’s reproductive rights… Due to her predominantly Caucasian ancestry, however …, Hunt Logan herself looked white. As an adult, she occasionally “passed” … to attend segregated political gatherings, such as the N-AWSA’s, from which she brought suffrage tactics and materials back to share with her own people. At the time, she was the N-AWSA’s only African-American lifetime member, and the only such member from ultraconservative Alabama, where she lived with her husband, Warren Logan, and their children, and taught for three decades at Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute…” (Harvard Magazine)
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