Leading Lady Mabel Ping-Hua Lee

At the age of 16 years old, high school student Mabel Ping-Hua Lee rode a white horse when she led 10,000 people as they marched from Washington Square Park up Fifth Avenue in New York City in the women’s suffrage parade. It was May 1912, and Mabel was Chinese, living in the United States through the Boxer Indemnity Scholarship, which granted her a visa to attend the Erasmus Hall Academy school in Brooklyn. She was already a well-known Suffragist.

Mabel’s family was one of the few allowed to immigrate during the Chinese Exclusion Act. It is unclear whether she ever earned the right to become a United States Citizen. She did, however, become a successful and passionate immigrant and voting rights activist, seen as a trailblazer who gave speeches and wrote articles that, once published, paved the way for history to change for many like her.

Read all about how Mabel mobilized her community to support the women’s right to vote and, in doing so, made significant contributions to the women’s suffrage movement, providing equal educational and political opportunities to many for decades. She did this, though the democracy she advocated for was denied to her by those who received it.

The Leading Ladies of Suffrage Series, 100 Years + of Marching for Our Rights & The Leading Ladies in Flight & The Space Age series is back! My designs are renewed, digitized, and elevated to bring you new information, more resources, and you can now print your pre-painted version or color your own designs. Each is fully digitized, and is wearing a uniquely tailored gown or flight suit.

The Suffrage Series is now available in my newly created Saunter patterns. Saunter is available as a set of patterns or individually. See my Design Studio & Creative Space for more information on Saunter! 

All artwork is the creation of InterArtist Jen Haefeli, Wild Root Creations®.

I hope that you enjoy collecting these historically inspired creative collectibles, and that they spark your interest in learning more about the women they honor. Please utilize the biographical content and resources included with each of the patterns to do additional research on each leader. 

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