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American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), created in 1869. [1] [2] College Equal Suffrage League. [3] Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. [4] Equal Franchise Society. [5] The Men's League. [6] National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), created in 1890 through the merger of AWSA and NWSA. [1] National Woman Suffrage Association ...
The National American Woman Suffrage Association, not the National Woman's Party, was decisive in Wilson's conversion to the cause of the federal amendment because its approach mirrored his own conservative vision of the appropriate method of reform: win a broad consensus, develop a legitimate rationale, and make the issue politically valuable.
Susan B. Anthony (center) with Laura Clay, Anna Howard Shaw, Alice Stone Blackwell, Annie Kennedy Bidwell, Carrie Chapman Catt, Ida Husted Harper, and Rachel Foster Avery in 1896.
History tells us that matters like marriage equality, voting rights, abortion access and campaign finance are often adjudicated through the court system.
On August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment to the Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote. The amendment came after more than 70 years of struggle for women suffragists. Tennessee ...
The Anti-Suffrage Review also used shame as a tool to fight against the suffrage movement. [19] An Anti-suffrage correspondence had taken place in the pages of The Times through 1906–1907, with further calls for leadership of the anti-suffrage movement being placed in The Spectator in February 1908. Possibly as early as 1907, a letter was ...
Susan B. Anthony was a leader of the American women's suffrage movement whose position on abortion has been the subject of a modern-day dispute. The dispute has primarily been between anti-abortion activists , who say that Anthony expressed opposition to abortion, and acknowledged authorities in her life and work who say that she did not.
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