Charlotte M. Rollin

Charlotte M. Rollin (c. 1847–1928) was an American political and civil rights activist, suffragist, and feminist. Rollin, along with her five sisters, Frances Anne, Kate, Louisa, and Florence, became well known for their political activism in South Carolina and nationally during the period of Reconstruction. Lottie Rollin was chair of the South Carolina American Woman Suffrage Association and the Rollin Sisters were said to be 'among the most influential lobbyists and power brokers in South Carolina during Reconstruction'.

Early life and education Charlotte Rollin was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina, one of five daughters born to Margarette The daughters were descendants emigres who fled the Haitian Revolution, a successful slave revolt, in the late eighteenth century. All of the daughters

Although previously wealthy and locally prominent, the Civil War had a major impact on the wealth and property of William Rollin. She declared:We ask suffrage not as a favor, nor as a privilege, but as a right based on the ground that we are human beings, and as such entitled to all human rights... until woman has the right of representation... other rights will be held by insecure tenure.

Later life As early as 1871, Rollin expressed her intention to move to Brooklyn, in fear of the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. By late 1880, Rollin and her sister Louisa were running a boarding house in Brooklyn. She is presumed to have deceased in Brooklyn.