In
1869 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan
B. Anthony formed a new organisation, the National
Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). The organisation condemned
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments as blatant injustices to women.
As well as advocating votes for women, the NWSA also advocated easier
divorce and an end to discrimination in employment and pay.
Some suffragists thought it was a mistake to become involved in other
controversial issues. Later that year Lucy
Stone, Julia Ward Howeand Josephine
Ruffin formed the American
Woman Suffrage Association
(AWSA) in Boston. Less militant that the National
Woman Suffrage Association, the AWSA was only concerned
with obtaining the vote and did not campaign on other issues.
In 1870 the AWSA founded its own magazine, the Women's
Journal. Edited by Lucy Stone,
it featured articles by members of the organisations and cartoons
by Blanche Ames, Lou
Rogers, Mary
Sigsbee, Fredrikke
Palmer and Rollin Kirby.
Some of the regional groups also produced journals, most notably,
the Women Voter (New York City)
Maryland
Suffrage News
(Baltimore) and the Western
Woman Voter
(Seattle).
In the 1880s it became clear that it was not a good idea to have two
rival groups campaigning for votes for women. After several years
of negotiations, the AWSA and the NWSA merged in 1890 to form the
National American Woman Suffrage Association
(NAWSA). The leaders of this new organisation include Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony,
Carrie Chapman Catt, Frances
Willard, Mary Church Terrell, Matilda
Joslyn Gage and Anna Howard Shaw.
Maryland Suffrage News (November, 1913)
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