National Women Suffrage Association
In 1869, after following a stormy meeting of the American Equal Rights Association
which Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were highly criticized, both
women and several of their followers left the AERA to form the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) in New York City. The organization campaigned the adoption of a national amendment accepting women's suffrage, as well as embracing other social reforms.
Anthony and Stanton had left the convention angered and disgusted with Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone, and other Boston based activists who wouldn't split with male abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Wendel Phillips over whether women should wait for the vote until African American men had won it. The tension began to grow over the next years between the movement to gain women's suffrage and the movement to gain suffrage for African-American men.
The NWSA established chapters through the nation and gained more members than the more conservative American Women Suffrage Association (AWSA). The NWSA called for a women's suffrage amendment which was introduced into Congress every year from 1878 continuing.
In 1890, the NWSA and AWSA merged and became the National American Women Suffrage Associaton.
which Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were highly criticized, both
women and several of their followers left the AERA to form the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) in New York City. The organization campaigned the adoption of a national amendment accepting women's suffrage, as well as embracing other social reforms.
Anthony and Stanton had left the convention angered and disgusted with Julia Ward Howe, Lucy Stone, and other Boston based activists who wouldn't split with male abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Wendel Phillips over whether women should wait for the vote until African American men had won it. The tension began to grow over the next years between the movement to gain women's suffrage and the movement to gain suffrage for African-American men.
The NWSA established chapters through the nation and gained more members than the more conservative American Women Suffrage Association (AWSA). The NWSA called for a women's suffrage amendment which was introduced into Congress every year from 1878 continuing.
In 1890, the NWSA and AWSA merged and became the National American Women Suffrage Associaton.