Frederick Douglass

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

1869-05-15 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

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

Emancipation Proclamation Faces Violent Northern Resistance from Democrats and White Supremacists Fearing Labor Competition

1863-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, taking effect January 1, 1863, declares enslaved people in Confederate-held territory to be free, transforming the Civil War from a conflict to preserve the Union into a crusade against slavery. The proclamation faces immediate and violent opposition from …

Abraham Lincoln Northern Democrats Copperheads Frederick Douglass George McClellan emancipation racism copperheads resistance white-supremacy +1 more

Seneca Falls Convention Launches Women's Rights Movement with Declaration of Sentiments

1848-07-19 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

The Seneca Falls Convention, held July 19-20, 1848, at the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Seneca Falls, New York, marked the first organized women’s rights convention in the United States. Organized primarily by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott along with local Quaker women, the …

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott Frederick Douglass Jane Hunt Mary Ann McClintock +1 more womens-suffrage democratic-expansion civil-rights institutional-resistance abolitionist-movement