The Woman’s Journal is founded and edited by Mary Livermore, Lucy Stone, and Henry Blackwell. Frederick Douglass broke with Stanton and Anthony over the position of NWSA. NWSA refused to work for its ratification and instead the members advocate for a Sixteenth Amendment that would dictate universal suffrage. The Fifteenth Amendment give black men the right to vote. Wyoming territory is organized with a woman suffrage provision. Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe and other more conservative activists form the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) to work for woman suffrage through amending individual state constitutions. Anthony found the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), a more radical institution, to achieve the vote through a Constitutional amendment as well as push for other woman’s rights issues. The American Equal Rights Association is wrecked by disagreements over the Fourteenth Amendment and the question of whether to support the proposed Fifteenth Amendment which would enfranchise Black American males while avoiding the question of woman suffrage entirely.Įlizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. "Citizens" and "voters" are defined exclusively as male. Anthony, remained single because in the mid-1800s, married women could not own property in their own rights and could not make legal contracts on their own behalf. Many early suffrage supporters, including Susan B. Pomeroy of Kansas introduces the federal woman’s suffrage amendment in Congress. In Vineland, New Jersey, 172 women cast ballots in a separate box during the presidential election. The “Mother of Clubs” sparked the club movement which became popular by the late nineteenth century.
This periodical carries the motto “Men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less!”Ĭaroline Seymour Severance establishes the New England Woman’s Club. Anthony, and Parker Pillsbury publish the first edition of The Revolution. Anthony form the American Equal Rights Association, an organization dedicated to the goal of suffrage for all regardless of gender or race.Įlizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Women put their energies toward the war effort.Įlizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Women can how sue, be sued, make contracts, inherit and bequeath property.ĭuring the Civil War, efforts for the suffrage movement come to a halt. The Married Woman’s Property Bill passes in the U.S. Anthony, are not allowed to speak at The World's Temperance Convention held in New York City. Women delegates, Antoinette Brown and Susan B. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe, is published and quickly becomes a bestseller. This is a major issue for the Suffragists. The issue of women's property rights is presented to the Vermont Senate by Clara Howard Nichols. Participants included: Horace Mann, New York Tribune columnist Elizabeth Oaks Smith, and Reverend Harry Ward Beecher, one of the nation's most popular preachers.Īt a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth, a former slave, delivers her now memorable speech "Ain't I a woman?" Worcester, Massachusetts is the site of the second National Women's Rights Convention. A strong alliance is formed with the Abolitionist Movement. An alliance is formed Frederick Douglass, Paulina Wright Davis, Abby Kelley Foster, William Lloyd Garrison, Lucy Stone and Sojourner Truth are in attendance. Worcester, Massachusetts, is the site of the first National Women's Rights Convention. The first state constitution in California extends property rights to women. Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes "The Declaration of Sentiments" creating the agenda of women's activism for decades to come. Seneca Falls, New York is the location for the first Women's Rights Convention. This prompts them to hold a Women's Convention in the US. Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are barred from attending the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in London.
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