Created in 1897, the Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association elected Nellie Nugent Somerville as president, Belle Kearney as vice president, and Lily Wilkinson Thompson as corresponding secretary.  Thompson, along with other members, prepared and distributed the organization's literature and articles provided to state newspapers. As superintendent of press work, she stated "Original articles are of immense value.  Mississippi people are interested in what Mississippi men and women think on the question, rather than what is being done elsewhere."  In 1912, the organization elected Thompson president. 

Thompson also held several officer positions in the Equity League of Jackson, a local woman suffrage organization.

Box 1 contains correspondence addressed to Thompson; public relations material including form letters, manuscripts, broadsides, and publications; and ledgers containing minutes of the Jackson Equity League.  Box 2 holds publications and clippings, and Box 3 contains oversized material including publications, broadsides, clippings, and a scrapbook.

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Ballots for Both: Thirteenth Annual Convention, Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association (1917).  Call Number: JK1911 M7 B35 1917.

League of Women Voters (Mississippi Division) Collection.

Webb, R.A.  Man and Woman: Address Delivered Belhaven Christian Workers' School, Jackson, Mississippi, June 1913 by Rev. R.A. Webb, D.D. of Louisville Seminary (Jackson, MS: Tucker Printing House, 1913).  Call Number: JF853 W4.

The Woman Voter (Clarksdale, Mississippi).  3 August 1922 -- 4 April 1924.  Location: Microfilm.

Constitution and By-Laws of the Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association (1898).  Call Number: JK1911 M7 C6 1898.

Constitution and By-Laws of the Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association (1912).  Call Number: JK1911 M7 C6 1912.

Eighth Annual Report, Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association (1912).  Call Number: JK1911 M7 M57 8th (1912).

Fifth Annul Report of the Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association (1909).  Call Number: JK1911 M7 M57 5th (1909).

Fourth Annual Report of the Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association (1908).  Call Number: JK1911 M7 M57 4th (1908).

Minutes of the Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association (1898).  Call Number: JK1911 M7 M57 [2nd] (1898).

Minutes of the Ninth Annual Convention, Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association (1913).  Call Number: JK1911 M7 M57 (1913).

Minutes of the Second Annual Convention of the Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association, (1899).  Call Number: JK1911 M7 M57 [3rd] (1899).

Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association, 7th Annual Session (1911).  Call Number: JK1911 M7 M57 7th (1911).

Program for the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association (1912).  Call Number: JK1911 M7 P76 1912.

Report of the Organization of the Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association (1897).  Call Number: JK1911 M7 M57 [1st] (1897).

Second Quarterly Report, Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association (1912).  Call Number: JK1911 M7 M577 2nd qtr 1912/13.

Sixth Annual Report of the Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association (1910).  Call Number: JK1911 M7 M57 6th (1910).

Somerville, Nellie Nugent.  Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association: Address of President (1912).  Call Number: JK1911 M7 S66 1912.

Third Quarterly Report, Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association (1912-1913).  Call Number: JK1911 M7 M577 3rd qtr 1912/13.

Vardaman, James K.  Woman Suffrage: Speeches of Hon. James K. Vardaman of Mississippi in the Senate of the United States March 5 and 19, 1914 (Washington, DC: 1914).

Catt, Carrie Chapman.  The World Movement for Woman Suffrage 1904 to 1911 (London: International Woman Suffrage Alliance, 1911).  Call Number: JF851 C38 1911.

Lagerlof, Selma.  Home and State (Woman Suffrage Party, n.d.).  Call Number: HQ1423 L334.