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As in the UK, the suffrage movement in America was divided into two disparate groups, with the National American Woman Suffrage Association representing the more militant campaign and the International Women's Suffrage Alliance taking a more cautious and pragmatic approach [81] Although the publicity surrounding Pankhurst's visit and the ...
[330] [331] Wendy Rouse writes, "Scholars have already begun 'queering' the history of the suffrage movement by deconstructing the dominant narrative that has focused on the stories of elite, white, upper-class suffragists.” [330] Susan Ware says, "To speak of 'queering the suffrage movement' is to identify it as a space where women felt free ...
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 Suffrage Association (NWSA). [1] National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), created in 1890 through the merger of AWSA ...
Around the same time, there was also another group of women who supported the 15th amendment and they called themselves American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). The American Women Suffrage Association was founded by Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who were more focused on gaining access at a local level. [52] The ...
History of Woman Suffrage is a book that was produced by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Ida Husted Harper.Published in six volumes from 1881 to 1922, it is a history of the women's suffrage movement, primarily in the United States.
The Woman's Hour Has Struck, 1916 poster. The United States women's suffrage movement was represented largely by the colors gold and yellow. [5] These colors were first used during the campaign for women's suffrage in Kansas by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. [5]
The American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), led by Lucy Stone, tended to work more for suffrage at the state level. [2] They merged in 1890 as the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). [3] Prospects for a national amendment looked dim at the turn of the century, and progress at the state level had slowed. [4]
This list of suffragists and suffragettes includes noted individuals active in the worldwide women's suffrage movement who have campaigned or strongly advocated for women's suffrage, the organisations which they formed or joined, and the publications which publicized – and, in some nations, continue to publicize– their goals.