Eudora Ramsay Richardson

Eudora Ramsay Richardson (August 13, 1891 – October 6, 1973) was an American women's suffrage activist, lecturer and writer.

[1] During her teaching career in South Carolina, as described below, Richardson continued her own studies and in 1914 earned a master's degree from Columbia University in New York City.

[1] On December 13, 1917, Ramsay married Fitzhugh Briggs Richardson, an attorney from Surry County, Virginia whom she met while speaking for woman suffrage.

The couple moved to Richmond, where he served briefly as an assistant attorney general, and later chaired the board of the Virginia Mutual Savings and Loan Association.

She was a popular teacher, named the literary societies that became an important part of college life, and had a stated goal of educating girls "who are staunch advocates of women's rights".

Ramsay became a field director of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and worked closely with Carrie Chapman Catt.

Lila Hardaway Meade Valentine, president of the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, arranged to pay part of her salary as Ramsay traveled across the Commonwealth speaking to various groups.

The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution gave American women the right to vote in 1920, the year her only child, a daughter, was born.