Martha Murphy and Franklin Sampson were the parents of Alice S. Presto, who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts around 1879.
[1] During this time, Washington became the first state to grant Women's Suffrage in 1910,[3] before the Nineteenth Amendment had been ratified.
Presto was also responsible for founding the Woman's Political and Civic Alliance (WPCA) in 1916, and was the president of this organization.
[4][5] Presto was also responsible for founding the Washington State Federation of Colored Women's Club, where she served as the second vice president.
Her platform "supported equal pay for women, an increase in widow’s pension, an Industrial Insurance Act for workers, reforms to child labor laws, and free tuition for children of taxpayers attending state public institutions.