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Rights for Women: The Suffrage Movement

1/20/2017

 
Excerpts from National Women's History Museum

I believe the information gleaned from the National Women's History Museum is a stark reminder of what is at stake with the Trump administration.
Please take a moment and see what it took to get to where we are now and how hard the fight was. https://www.nwhm.org/online-exhibits/rightsforwomen/introduction.html

Prior to 1776, women exercised the right to vote in several American colonies. After 1776, states rewrote their constitutions to prevent women from voting. After 1787, women were able to vote only in New Jersey. Women continued to vote in New Jersey until 1807, when male legislators officially outlawed woman suffrage.
Only after decades of intense political activity did women eventually win the right to vote.
Gaining the vote for American women, known as woman suffrage, was the single largest enfranchisement and extension of democratic rights in our nation’s history. Along with the Civil Rights Movement, the woman suffrage movement should be considered one of the two most important American political movements of the 20th century.

The 15th Amendment stated that voting rights could not be denied on account of race, but did not mention sex.
In 1869, Cady Stanton and Anthony founded their own women’s rights party, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). The NWSA, considered a radical organization, did not support the 15th Amendment on the grounds that it enfranchised black men but not white or black women. The NWSA also initially discouraged the participation of men in leadership positions, and was a multi-issue organization, arguing for a variety of women’s rights.
When the 19th Amendment was passed in 1920, it legally enfranchised all women, white and black. However, within a decade, state laws and vigilante practices effectively disenfranchised most black women in the South. It would take another major movement for voting rights – the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s – before black women in the South would be effectively enfranchised.


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