Emerging from that debacle were two separate feminist groups – the National Woman Suffrage Associati

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton is my Ancestor

Emerging from that debacle were two separate feminist groups – the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) created on May 15, 1869, and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) formed six months later. The rival groups operated with distinctly different mission statements: NWSA, founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, opposed supporting the Fifteenth Amendment without any inclusion of women’s voting rights and believed a federal constitutional amendment was the most effective way to secure those rights. The AWSA was more interested in getting states behind that effort. But Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were a fierce team dedicated to their task; they moved forward aggressively, declaring membership in The National (as the organization came to be called) as available to women only, though men could be affiliated if they agreed to fully support the forward motion towards women’s rights. Their actions were relentless and often framed as controversial, even radical, at the time.

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