Beyond leading the suffrage movement, Florence Cotnam practiced what she taught her citizenship students by supporting the Democratic National Committee. During World War I, Cotnam headed fundraising efforts for the Democratic Victory Fund. The Democratic Party made her a delegate…
As a highly educated woman, Cotnam understood the importance of education. She told The Woman Citizen in 1919 that the “greatest handicap to good government in a republic is indifference and lack of intelligence on the part of the voters.”…
Of all Cotnam’s abilities, her strength as a persuasive and passionate speaker spread her fame nationwide. The Woman Citizen remarked that the “T. T.” in Mrs. T. T. Cotnam stood for “Tip Top” because, “She is always being chosen to…
As an educated woman of the post-Reconstruction period, Cotnam became involved in the national debate of who had the right to vote. She saw it as her educational and moral duty to advocate for women’s right to vote and to…
Florence Lee (Brown) Cotnam was a suffrage leader and influential speaker from Little Rock, Arkansas. Her speeches persuaded thousands of Americans and aided in the passage of the 19th Constitutional Amendment.
