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THOMPSON (LILY WILKINSON) PAPERS


Biography:

Lily Wilkinson Thompson was born in Crystal Springs, Mississippi. She was the daughter of William Clements Wilkinson, a native of Ireland, and Gabrielle Flowers Gaines Wilkinson, who was born in this state. Her education was completed at Whitworth College. She was married to Charles Henri Thompson, who was a prominent insurance man in Jackson.

As the ex-president of the Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association, she is known as one of the pioneer organizers of the state, and was chosen as one of the few women of Mississippi who addressed the state legislature in the interest of the bill proposing to grant full suffrage for Mississippi women. Her contributions to newspapers on social and political questions have been widely read.

Box List:

  • Box 1, Folders 1–10: Folder 1. Personal correspondence, 1913–1921.
    • Folder 2. Correspondence from the House of Representatives, 1913.
    • Folder 3. Correspondence from National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1907–1915.
    • Folder 4. Correspondence from Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association, 1913–1915, n.d.
    • Folder 5. Miscellaneous correspondence, 1912–1922.
    • Folder 6. Personal correspondence and cards, n.d.
    • Folders 7–10. News clippings on Woman's Suffrage, 1911–1920, n.d.
  • Box 2, Folders 11–17: Folder 11. Minutes, Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association 1898, 1911 and 1913.
    • Folder 12. Quarterly reports, Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association, 1910–1913.
    • Folder 13. Annual reports, Mississippi Woman Suffrage Association, 1908, 1909, and 1912.
    • Folder 14. Annual conventions, National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1908 and 1911.
    • Folder 15. Mississippi Federation of Women's Clubs.
    • Folders 16–17. Miscellaneous prints and pamphlets.