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Anthony, who eventually became the person most closely associated in the public mind with women's suffrage, [77] later said, "I wasn't ready to vote, didn't want to vote, but I did want equal pay for equal work." [78] In the period just before the Civil War, Anthony gave priority to anti-slavery work over her work for the women's movement. [79]
1869: The suffrage movement splits into the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. The NWSA is formed by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony after their accusing abolitionist and Republican supporters of emphasizing black civil rights at the expense of women's rights.
In 1897, the Manchester Women's Suffrage committee had merged with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) but Emmeline Pankhurst, who was a member of the original Manchester committee, and her eldest daughter Christabel had become impatient with the ILP, and on 10 October 1903, Emmeline Pankhurst held a meeting at her home in ...
Suffrage for educated women in 1955, [93] extended to all women in 1974. Kazakh SSR: 1924 Kenya: 1963 Kiribati: 1967 Korea, North: 1946 [94] Korea, South: 1948 (for both men & women) Suffrage for both men and women were given at same date, same year right after the first constitutional law had been announced.
Anti-suffragists claimed that they represented the "silent majority" of America who did not want to enter the public sphere by gaining the right to vote. [83] Being against women's suffrage didn't mean, however, that all Antis were against civic pursuits. [84] Jeanette L. Gilder, a journalist, wrote "Give women everything she wants, but not the ...
NAWSA president Anna Howard Shaw refused, saying she was "in favor of colored people voting", but did not want to alienate others in the suffrage movement. [44] Even NAWSA's more radical Congressional Committee, which would become the National Woman's Party , failed African-American women, most visibly by refusing to allow them to march in the ...
It was important to show anti-suffragists that women really did want to vote. [152] Women's clubs, including the Alpha Suffrage Club, worked together to get women to vote. [153] More than 200,000 women were registered to vote in Chicago alone. [152] [154]
This is a list of suffragists and suffrage activists working in the United States and its territories. This list includes suffragists who worked across state lines or nationally. See individual state or territory lists for other American suffragists not listed here.