Sophie Gooding Rose Meredith

Sophie Gooding Rose Meredith (1851 – 1928) was an American suffragist. Biography Meredith née Rose was born on December 12, 1851, in Baltimore, Maryland. She had a Quaker upbringing in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She returned to Baltimore as a teenager. In 1877 she married Charles Vivian Meredith (1850 -1930) with whom she had three children. The couple settled in Richmond, Virginia. In 1909 Meredith help establish the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. She served in the organization, trying to achieve suffrage in the state of Virginia, until 1915 when she left work with fellow Quaker Alice Paul, an organizer behind the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage (CU). The CU worked on achieving suffrage on a national level. Meredith established to Virginia branch of the CU. In 1916 Meredith was chair of the Virginia branch of the CU and gave the presidential address at the annual meeting. Later that year the CU would evolve into the National Woman's Party (NWP).