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Today in History: The National Woman Suffrage Association Is Founded
05/15/10
On May 15, 1869, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was founded by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. The group split off from the American Woman Suffrage Association following a disagreement over strategy for securing the right to vote for American women. The more radical NWSA opposed the 15th Amendment to the Constitution—which extended the vote to African-American men following the Union victory in the Civil War—because it did not include women. “We cannot forget, even in this glad hour, that while all men of every race, and clime, and condition, have been invested with the full rights of citizenship, under our hospitable flag, all women still suffer the degradation of disfranchisement,” the NWSA founders wrote in their Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States.
Read the DECLARATION OF RIGHTS OF THE WOMEN OF THE UNITED STATES