Changes to American Society and Culture from 1865 to 1929: Women Rights Movement (MC)

By MaCliver

  • American Equal Rights Association

    American Equal Rights Association
    The woman suffrage movement started in 1848 at the Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York lost momentum during the Civil War as the women put their efforts toward the Union's cause. In 1866, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the American Equal Rights Association (AERA) with the goal of achieving voting rights for all regardless of gender and race. Stanton stated: " . . . an argument for universal suffrage covers the whole question, the rights of all citizens.”

  • National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association.

    National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association.
    The movement split over the proposed 15th Amendment that would give black men the right to vote but not women. Susan B. Anthony took a stand against it and formed the National Woman Suffrage Association based in New York, on May 15, 1869, while Lucy Stone remained faithful to the right to vote for all and founded the American Woman Suffrage Association in Boston. The split lasted for over two decades.
    That same year, Wyoming Territory became the first government to grant women's suffrage.

  • The National American Woman Suffrage Association

    The National American Woman Suffrage Association
    The National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) on February 18, 1890. This organization based in New York began to campaign for women suffrage across the United States. The women went West, traveling from state to state to educate men and women alike about woman's right to vote.
    Wyoming is now a member of the Union and the first state granting women the right to vote.

  • National Association of Colored Women

    National Association of Colored Women
    Mary Church Terrell became the first president of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) founded in Washington, D.C. in July 1896. The NACW was formed in response to lynching, segregation, and negative press campaign against black women. The Founders worked to the enfranchisement of black women, but also to improve the lives of black women and children, to fight racism, an issue that their white counterparts did not face. They adopted the motto “Lifting as We Climb.”

  • National Woman Party and the Silent Sentinels

    National Woman Party and the Silent Sentinels
    At the end of the progressive era (1890-1920), the NAWSA continues to achieve great successes in the states. However, Alice Paul grew impatient and set to revolutionize the women movement. She formed with Lucy Burns the Congressional Union in 1913. It became later the National Women’s Party (1916). By 1917, Paul and Burns led the women of the party to picket outside the White House with banners addressing directly President Wilson: “How Long Must Women Wait for Liberty? ”

  • The 19th Amendment

    The 19th Amendment
    The Susan B. Anthony bill was introduced in the House in 1918 but defeated in the Senate. It took more than a year for the bill to pass in the Senate. On August 18, 1920, Tenessee became the 36th state to ratify the19th Amendment to the Constitution, which states:“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”