By Carol Rust Nash
The suffrage move used to be the struggle for definitely the right of ladies to vote. Highlighting the lives and careers of impressive suffragists like Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul, writer Carol Rust Nash strains the movement's roots from the temperance and abolition routine via its luck with the passage of the 19th modification. the writer describes the numerous strategies used to struggle for definitely the right to vote for girls, in addition to the various difficulties and setbacks confronted through the ladies and males interested by the circulation. This e-book is built from THE struggle FOR WOMAN'S correct TO VOTE IN AMERICAN background to permit republication of the unique textual content into e-book, paperback, and alternate variations.
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Bingham issued a report rejecting Woodhull’s proposal. The committee denied that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments granted voting rights to women. However, Woodhull’s argument was adopted by the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). Two years before Woodhull’s attempt, in 1869, Virginia Minor had made a similar proposal to the association. 2 By 1871, their attitude had changed. ”3 This would put the burden on men to refuse the votes of women and to explain why they were refusing fellow citizens the right to vote.
They thought the only way to obtain a federal women’s suffrage amendment was to win one state at a time. They reasoned that when a majority of states had passed state amendments allowing women to vote, a federal amendment would follow. Stanton and Anthony still believed the best method was to get the vote for all women with just one national amendment. Two separate organizations were established. Stanton and Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) in May 1869. Stone started the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).
12 Feminists were counting on the equal rights ideology to add the rights of women to the Reconstruction debate. In 1866, Stanton and Anthony reorganized the women’s rights movement to tie it in more closely with the drive for black suffrage. They formed the American Equal Rights Association (AERA) to combine the two demands for suffrage into one campaign: the right to vote for all adults. The association’s first order of business was to fight the wording of the proposed Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.