Rise of Woman Suffrage Associations
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Feminism, Feminists, Women’s Rights, Gender Issues, Sexism, Elections, Voting
- Curriculum: Women’s History, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877)
- Geographical Location: Ohio, New York
- Date: Beginning May, 1869
Article abstract: The first organizations devoted to the cause of woman suffrage begin their half-century struggle.
Summary of Event
The struggle for woman suffrage, marked from start to finish by internal controversy, was first publicly articulated in the United States as a resolution written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the organizers of the Woman’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls in 1848, and passed at the convention. The early struggle for women’s rights paralleled the struggle for the rights of Negroes, as African Americans were then...
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