Hazel Hunkins Hallinan

Hazel Hunkins Hallinan (née Hunkins; June 6, 1890 – May 17, 1982) was an American women's rights activist, journalist, and suffragist.

Early life and education Hunkins Hallinan was born on June 6, 1890, in Aspen, Colorado, and grew up in Billings, Montana. She was the only daughter of Lewis Hunkins, a jeweller, watchmaker, and civil war veteran, and an Englishwoman, Ann Whittingham.

To develop her knowledge of political and economic issues, Hunkins Hallinan attended lectures at the London School of Economics. She was a member of the 1917 Club and attended Fabian social events. She was society correspondent of the Chicago Tribune for fourteen years and became a sub-editor of the Statesman's Yearbook. SPG was a non-party political group formed in 1921 by Lady Rhondda with an early membership drawn from suffragettes and suffragists interested in practical action for social, economic, and political equality for women. Many of Hunkins Hallinan's friends, such as Crystal Eastman, Dora Russell, and Vera Brittain were leading feminists of the 1920s and 1930s. Hunkins Hallinan joined the March for Equal Rights parade along Pennsylvania Avenue from the National Archives to the White House, which also commemorated the August 26, 1920, adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which granted the right to vote to women.

Hazel Hunkins Hallinan's papers, alongside those of the Six Point Group, are deposited at the Women's Library at LSE. The Women's Library collection also holds an oral history interview with Hunkins-Hallinan, recorded by Brian Harrison, in February 1975, as part of the Suffrage Interviews project, titled Oral evidence on the suffragette and suffragist movements: the Brian Harrison interviews. Hunkins Hallinan talks about the work of Teresa Billington-Greig, and discusses the formation of the Married Women's Association growing out of the Six Point Group, including the differences in opinion which prevented their amalgamation.

Publications In Her Own Right