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Mergers & Acquisitions, part IIWhy did the American Woman Suffrage Association merge with its longtime rival, the National Woman Suffrage Association? They had distinct strategies…
Julia Ward HoweSo many great suffragists were born for the struggle. They were iconoclasts, rebels from the beginning. Many remained unmarried, or married unusual…
Phoebe Couzins did not have a lot of friendsMost law schools accepted female students grudgingly, but @WashULaw in St. Louis sought them out. In 1868 the school went looking for white women to…
Why you've never heard of Anna DickinsonI spent the whole week on Anna Dickinson because she was very, very famous in her day and is almost lost to history. I know a lot about suffrage for a…
Mary Ann Shadd Cary & the Centennial actionBy the 1876 US centennial, women had been demanding the vote for nearly 30 years. The light bulb was not yet invented. As the National and the…
The Rollin sisters of South CarolinaMassachusetts wasn’t a surprising place for Black women to participate in the American Woman Suffrage Assoc. - but South Carolina is less obvious. But…
Josphine St. Pierre Ruffin joins the AmericanBlack Boston in the 1870s was thriving. In Massachusetts, unlike NY & PA, Black men voted before the war. After, 6 Af-Am men served in the state…
Black suffragists after the American/National splitAs Lucy Stone’s American Woman Suffrage Assoc and Stanton/Anthony’s National WSA warred through the 1870’s, where were African-American women? Mostly…
The American v. The NationalWhen the dust settled, there were two competing organizations, the American Woman Suffrage Assoc. & the National. Some of the differences were…