Belle Fligelman Winestine
Belle Fligelman Winestine · Civil Rights & Human Rights
Montana suffragist and journalist, aide to the first U.S. Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin, who campaigned for women's suffrage in the West.
1891, Helena, Montana, USA — 1985, Helena, Montana, USA
Helena, Montana; Washington, D.C.
Belle Fligelman Winestine is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — Montana suffragist and journalist, aide to the first U.S. Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin, who campaigned for women's suffrage in the West.
Belle Fligelman Winestine, daughter of Romanian Jewish immigrants, was a Montana suffragist and journalist who helped launch the state's 1914 woman-suffrage campaign. As aide and secretary to Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress, she worked in Washington and spent seven decades lobbying for women's rights, child welfare and equal rights legislation. She was among the West's leading Jewish suffrage organizers.
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Source: Jewish Women's Archive; Jewish Journal
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Montana suffragist and journalist, aide to the first U.S. Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin, who campaigned for women's suffrage in the West.
Source: Jewish Women's Archive; Jewish Journal
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