Merion Friends Meeting

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As a Bryn Mawr student, Mary served as president of the College Equal Suffrage League, inviting both  Anna Howard Shaw and Emmeline Pankhurst at different times for tea. 

Mary's aunt, M. Carey Thomas, was a powerful woman and mentor as the president of Bryn Mawr College.   

In her junior year, Mary became the head of the Bryn Mawr College Equal Suffrage League.

M. Carey Thomas, took to Buffalo in 1908 to attend the 40th annual convention of the National American Woman's Suffrage Association.  "I was crazy to go," she wrote. "All the great people in the suffrage world were there." 

Mary died young after starting medical school. 

college students take a place of pride in the first march ever held in Washington DC, by then-NAWSA member, and Quaker suffragist Alice Paul.

was a Quaker wh joined Radnor Monthly Meeting in 1908 and transferred her membership to  Green Street Meeting in 1926. 

Unmarried, educated, and independent, Moore became a social worker and, as a devout Quaker, was dedicated to philanthropy and good works through her Quaker community, the Philadelphia Religious Society of Friends. She was a member of the Committee on Philanthropic Labor and also the Chairman of the Sectional Committee of the Philadelphia Young Friends Association. 

Moore was a champion of women’s rights and worked earnestly with other like-minded women to help acquire the franchise for women. She was even appointed to the suffrage committee within her church. 

On August 6, 1918, she was arrested for "obstructing traffic" along with forty-six other suffragists who were picketing the White House.   They were given ten to fifteen days in prison, after refusing to pay the fine. On January 27, 1919, Moore and six other suffragists were arrested and chose a sentence of five days over the fine after participating in a watchfire demonstration.

the Congressional Union, which was started by Alice Paul as an offshoot of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. 

Martha Moore was a charter member; having been classmates with Alice Paul at Swarthmore College.