Lydia o newman autobiography definition

Biographical Database of Black Women Suffragists

Biography of Lyda, Newman, ?

By Megan Lounsberry, Electronic Resources Librarian, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Suffragist, inventor, community organizer, African American woman

Born in Ohio between and , Lyda Newman was an African American suffragist and inventor.

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Though census records reveal she was born in Ohio, she spent her adult years living in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Specific details about her personal life are sparse since so little was recorded about the lives of African American women in the early 20^th century, but much can be ascertained about her in census and voter records, newspapers, and a study of the neighborhood in which she lived.

Most of the existing information on the internet about Lyda states that she was born in ; however, census records ranging from show an inconsistency in her age.

For example, in , she's listed as 40 years old, and in the c