Minna Curtis "Barbara" Bynum was born on December 12, 1880, to Mary Louisa Curtis and Rev. William Shipp Bynum, and Episcopalian minister. She graduated from St. Mary's College in 1899 and earned her Master's degree at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1902. After Graduate School, she married Archibald Henderson in 1903, and gave birth to five children. Archibald Henderson was a faculty member at the University of North Carolina.
Henderson was elected President to the Equal Suffrage Association of North Carolina in 1913. She was unanimously re-elected president for a second term in 1915. Her highly regarded poem March of Women in 1915 paved a new way for women to visualize their equal rights in society. This poem advocated equality for not just women but for the rights of all people regardless of all age, gender, race, nationality, sexual orientation, and physical ability. Henderson spoke out as the united voice of the Equal Suffrage Association. She tenaciously argued for women's equal right to vote by attempting to get the House and Senate of North Carolina to pass the 19th Amendment. On August 17, 1920, the North Carolina legislature defeated the measure by two votes. Had they voted in favor, North Carolina would have been the 36th and final state needed to ratify the amendment.
"Barbara" Bynum Henderson died March 24, 1955.
Minna Curtis "Barbara" Bynum was born on December 12, 1880, to Mary Louisa Curtis and Rev. William Shipp Bynum, and Episcopalian minister. She graduated from St. Mary's College in 1899 and earned her Master's degree at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1902. After Graduate School, she married Archibald Henderson in 1903, and gave birth to five children. Archibald Henderson was a faculty member at the University of North Carolina.
Henderson was elected President to the Equal Suffrage Association of North Carolina in 1913. She was unanimously re-elected president for a second term in 1915. Her highly regarded poem March of Women in 1915 paved a new way for women to visualize their equal rights in society. This poem advocated equality for not just women but for the rights of all people regardless of all age, gender, race, nationality, sexual orientation, and physical ability. Henderson spoke out as the united voice of the Equal Suffrage Association. She tenaciously argued for women's equal right to vote by attempting to get the House and Senate of North Carolina to pass the 19th Amendment. On August 17, 1920, the North Carolina legislature defeated the measure by two votes. Had they voted in favor, North Carolina would have been the 36th and final state needed to ratify the amendment.
"Barbara" Bynum Henderson died March 24, 1955.
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