3. Women's Civil Rights in campaign America (1865-1960) - Suffrage campaign
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- Women's Civil Rights in campaign America (1865-1960) - Suffrage campaign
- Divide between AWSA and NWSA due to different strategies
- NWSA campaigned for national change
- AWSA aimed to get women voting in individual states for state legislatures
- AWSA was one-issue organisation whereas NWSA (national organisation) took broader view and adopted feminist line, opposing male domination in number of spheres
- Two organisations merged in 1890 to become National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
- Splits weakened cause and many women put energies into temperance and social reform as an alternative
- Throughout period, divisions in aims and methods major factor in weakening impact of movements for more rights for women
- National Women Suffrage Association
- Formed 1869
- Focused on women's suffrage
- Without abolitionist allies
- Membership restricted to women
- Founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cody Stanton
- American Women Suffrage Association (AWSA)
- Rural organisation maintained abolitionist links
- Led by Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe
- Included men
- Divide between AWSA and NWSA due to different strategies
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