Eugenia Lockhart
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June 17, 1908
Eugenia Lockhart OBE | |
|---|---|
| Born | Eugenia Louise Wilson June 17, 1908 Duncan Town, Ragged Island |
| Died | c. 1986 |
| Known for | Bahamian suffragist |
| Political party | Progressive Liberal Party |
Eugenia Louise Lockhart OBE (née Wilson; 17 June 1908 – c. 1986) was a Bahamian suffragist who was the secretary of the Bahamian Women's Suffrage Movement (WSM) and secretary of the Women's Branch of the Progressive Liberal Party.[1]
In 1960, Lockhart, together with Doris Johnson and Henry Milton Taylor (the Progressive Liberal Party's national party chairman) went to London to argue the case for universal suffrage in the colony of the Bahamas Islands to the Secretary of State for the Colonies. Women gained the right to vote, and to sit in the legislature, in the following year. By 1967, black women had organized themselves into a voting bloc that contributed to the Progressive Liberal Party's win and majority rule in the Bahamas.[1]