"continuing to govern women without giving them the right to vote was essentially “taxation without representation."
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Mary Elizabeth Britton
1855 – 1925
Mary Elizabeth Britton (1855–1925) was an American physician, educator, suffragist, journalist and civil rights activist from Lexington, Kentucky. Britton was an original member of the Kentucky Negro Education Association, which formed in 1877. In 1904 became the first African American woman licensed as a physician in Lexington, Kentucky.
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