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Personal Life
Redmond was born Harriet Crawford in St. Louis, Missouri. She is believed to have been born in 1862.

Her voter's registration card lists her profession in 1913 as a hairdresser in Portland.

Activism
Harriet Redmond was an active member of the Oregon Colored Women’s Council, an organization dedicated to helping black women in need. Later she became secretary, then president, of the offshoot Colored Women’s Equal Suffrage Association formed in 1912. During this time, Redmond estimated that the low membership of the group, 14 out of 2500 potentially eligible black women in Portland, stemmed from the lack of awareness for the benefits of suffrage as well as negative influence from their husbands and families.

As a member of the Colored Women’s Equal Suffrage Association leadership, Redmond organized meetings and lectures in churches around the city. She also served on the Central Campaign Committee which was a major director of the suffragette movement in Oregon. This committee united suffrage efforts from around the state and worked to foster cooperation between the different factions of the movement.

Ultimately, the suffrage movement, in which Redmond played an important role, succeeded and Oregon voters ratified women's right to vote on November 5th, 1912 and Harriet Redmond registered to vote during 2013.

Legacy
In 2012, the Century of Action Committee honored Redmond and three other suffragists—Esther Pohl Lovejoy, Harry Lane, and Martha Cardwell Dalton—by installing new headstones for them at the Lone Fir Cemetery. This was part of their year-long celebration of 100 years of women's suffrage in Oregon and their efforts to call attention to remaining voting barriers for minorities. Redmond's headstone is inscribed with "Black American Suffragist."

In July of 2018, the president of Oregon State University, Ed Ray, announced that the names of three buildings with racist namesakes would be changed. One of these buildings, previously called the Benton Annex, became the Hattie Redmond Women and Gender Center. This choice was made to recognize her efforts as an Oregonian suffragist.