National American Woman Suffrage Association Reports in Favor of an Amendment to the National Constitution Prohibiting the Disfranchisement of United States Citizens on Account of Sex

National American Woman Suffrage Association

Pamphlets

National American Woman Suffrage Association. New York: National American Woman Suffrage Association, [1899]. Pamphlet. 12p., wraps unevenly browned and edge worn, closed tear in right margin else good condition, 6x9 inches. Signed in type by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B Anthony, Alice Stone Blackwell, Carrie Chapman Catt and others.

Formed in 1890, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), was the result of a merger between two rival factions--the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), led by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and Julia Ward Howe. These opposing groups were organized in the late 1860s, partly as the result of a disagreement over strategy. NWSA favored women's enfranchisement through a federal constitutional amendment, while AWSA believed success could be more easily achieved through state-by-state campaigns. NAWSA combined both of these techniques, securing the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 through a series of well-orchestrated state campaigns under the dynamic direction of Carrie Chapman Catt. With NAWSA's primary goal of women's enfranchisement now a reality, the organization was transformed into the League of Women Voters.

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