Sarah Massey Overton

Sarah Massey Overton (c. 1850 – August 24, 1914) was an American suffragist, women's rights activist, and African-American rights activist. In the 1880s, she became a leader in the fight to allow African-American children in California to attend public school. In 1906, she cofounded San Jose's Garden City Women's Club, and lobbied in favor of interracial women's club coalitions for women's suffrage.

Biography She was born in about 1850 in Lennox, Massachusetts. Her family moved to Gilroy, California, in the 1880s and eventually they settled in San Jose, California.

She lobbied for women's suffrage in the 1911 statewide election in California, and was vice-president of San Jose's interracial Suffrage Amendment League. Overton died on August 24, 1914, in San Jose, California.