Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Suffrage Movement Splits Over 15th Amendment as Stanton and Anthony Deploy Racist Rhetoric

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On May 15, 1869, the women’s rights movement fractured when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) after breaking with the American Equal Rights Association (AERA) over support for the 15th Amendment. The proposed amendment would …

Susan B. Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucy Stone Henry Blackwell Frederick Douglass +2 more womens-suffrage institutional-racism democratic-expansion reconstruction political-fracture
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