Mary Molson

Mary D. (Maud) Molson Hughes (September 26, 1846 – August 26, 1881) was a suffragist, lecturer, and orator. She was a member of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and delivered speeches across the country, advocating for the equal rights of African-American men and women to vote. Early life Mary D. Molson was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, on September 26, 1846, to parents John and Louisa Clark Molson. She was the third of six children; her siblings included James S., Ellen R., John, Samuel J., Josey, and Charles Summer Molson. Career Molson was a lecturer, orator, and African-American suffragist, advocating that Black women have as much right to vote as Black men. After leaving Alfred University, she "lectured around western New York in the spring of 1869 with Charles Lenox Remond, a well-known Massachusetts abolitionist, in support of the Fifteenth Amendment."