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	National American Woman Suffrage Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), an American women's rights organization, was established by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony in May of 1869.
		The American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) attracted more conservative members.
		This set it apart from the Equal Rights Association, which had begun to concentrate on black suffrage to the exclusion of female suffrage, and prominent suffragist Lucy Stone was not invited to its inaugural meeting due to her association with the ERA.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Woman_Suffrage_Association (339 words)

	PENNSYLVANIA - LoveToKnow Article on PENNSYLVANIA
		Miscellaneous Laws.A womans right to hold, manage and acquire property in her own right is not affected by marriage, but for a married woman to mortgage or convey her real estate the joint action of herself and her husband is necessai~.
		An organized association, known as the Molly Maguires (ga.), terrorized the mining regions formany years,but was finally suppressed through the courageous efforts of President Franklin Bcnjamin Gowen (1863-1889) of the Philadelphia and Reading railroad with the assistance of Allan Pinkerton and his detectives.
		During the years 1852-1857 the educational department became a separate branch of the state government, the office of county school superintendent was created, the state teachers association (known since 1900 as the Pennsylvania educational association) was organized, and a law was enacted for the establishment of normal schools.
	28.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PE/PENNSYLVANIA.htm (9856 words)

	Connecticut's Heritage Gateway
		In 1869 the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association was born.
		During the 1920s women were forced to operate outside the power structure through such organizations as the Connecticut Association of Collegiate Women, the League of Nations Association, and especially, the League of Women Voters, to perpetuate the unity and reform zeal that was the strength of the woman suffrage movement.
		Working closely with the Connecticut National Womans Party, organized in 1916 by Alice Paul (1885-1977) and other militants, they concentrated on a new strategy of building support for the Federal Amendment.
	www.ctheritage.org /test/encyclopedia/ct1865_1929/women_suffrage.htm (473 words)

	WOMEN - LoveToKnow Article on WOMEN
		The National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies is the oldest organization.
		The legal rights of a married woman apart from contract were gradually limited, until by the time of Glanvill her person and property had become during her husbands lifetime entirely at his disposal, and after his death limited to her dower and her pars rationabilis.
		The idea is that the proper mode of providing for a woman is by giving her a marriage portion; but, when she is once married into a separate community consisting of strangers in blood, neither she nor her children are deemed to have any further claim on the parent group.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WO/WOMEN.htm (8576 words)

	Women's suffrage: Encyclopedia topic
		National Woman's Suffrage Association (National Woman's Suffrage Association: the national womans suffrage association was a 19th century womens suffrage organiza...
		In 1890 these two bodies united into one national organization, known as the National American Woman Suffrage Association (National American Woman Suffrage Association: the national american woman suffrage association (nawsa) was created in 1890, when two competing...
		During the Civil War (Civil War: A war between factions in the same country) and immediately after little was heard of the movement, but in 1869 the National Woman Suffrage Association was formed, with the object of securing an amendment to the Constitution (Constitution: The act of forming something) in favor of woman suffrage.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/womens_suffrage (2255 words)

	National American Woman Suffrage Association
		Formed in 1890, NAWSA was the result of a merger between two rival factions--the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), led by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and Julia Ward Howe.
	home.cinci.rr.com /chris06/NAWSA.htm (45 words)

	National American Woman Suffrage Association., Sterling Silver Souvenir Spoon for the National Woman Suffrage Convention of 1912.
		National American Woman Suffrage Association., Sterling Silver Souvenir Spoon for the National Woman Suffrage Convention of 1912.
		Woman suffrage had come to Oregon, Kansas, and Arizona and it looked as if it would pass as well in Michigan.
		Suffragist leaders sensed the tide had turned in their direction and suffrage forces were jubilant as they converged on Philadelphia.
	www.polybiblio.com /pjbooks/9121.html (151 words)

	Votes for Women: Timeline
		The NWSA and the AWSA are reunited as the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) under the leadership of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
		The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS) is organized.
		Borrowing the tactics of the radical, militant Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in England, members of the Woman's Party participate in hunger strikes, picket the White House, and engage in other forms of civil disobedience to publicize the suffrage cause.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/naw/nawstime.html (1502 words)

	National American Woman Suffrage Association
		Another group, the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) was formed in the same year in Boston.
		What, don't you know that a woman had seven devils in her: and do you suppose a woman is fit to rule the nation?" Seven devils ain't no account; a man had a legion in him.
		Women's Suffrage in the USA, Women's Suffrage in Britain, Author, Search Website, Email
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAWnawsa.htm (2734 words)

	PBS - American Experience: Woodrow Wilson People
		A combative and outspoken leader in the womenís suffrage movement, Alice Paul broke away from the National American Woman Suffrage Association to form the more radical National Womanís Party.
		Despite the violence, the parade succeeded in obtaining Paulís objective:focusing national attention on the womenís suffrage issue.
		Unhappy with Carrie Chapman Catt and the NAWSA, whom she viewed as too conservative, Paul soon broke away to form a more radical group, the National Women's Party (NWP).
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/wilson/peopleevents/p_paul.html (473 words)

	WIC - Women's History in America
		Eventually, in 1890, the two groups united as the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
		The Socialist Labor party, in 1892, was one of the first national political parties in the United States to include woman suffrage as a plank in its platform.
		Lucy Stone organized the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) in Boston.
	www.wic.org /misc/history.htm (4166 words)

	Untitled Document
		In 1917, New York passed a state woman suffrage referendum, and by 1918, President Woodrow Wilson was finally converted to the cause.
		In 1916, at a NAWSA convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Catt unveiled her "Winning Plan" to campaign simultaneously for suffrage on both the state and federal levels, and to compromise for partial suffrage in the states resisting change.
		Stepping down from the presidency of NAWSA after its victory, Catt continued her work for equal suffrage, founding the new League of Women Voters, and serving as its honorary president for the rest of her life.
	t3.preservice.org /T0301022/catt.html (711 words)

	Elizabeth Cady Stanton
		Stanton suffered the sting of having the organization she founded, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, condemn The Woman’s Bible.
		It is fitting that the words, that finally granted woman suffrage, found in the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, were written by Ms.
		Stanton held that suffrage for women would be wasted if the Church still controlled their sex in the home and in society.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/john_murphy/stanton.html (606 words)

	Elizabeth Cady Stanton - MSN Encarta
		The publication of her two-volume book The Woman's Bible (1895, 1898), a commentary on women in the Bible, alienated her from the National-American Woman Suffrage Association.
		From 1868 to 1870, Cady Stanton and Anthony published the weekly Revolution in New York City, and in 1869 they founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, which after 1890 was called the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
		Cady Stanton's efforts were largely responsible for the introduction in 1878 of a constitutional amendment for woman suffrage.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579270/Stanton_Elizabeth_Cady.html (634 words)

	Western New York Suffragists - National Suffrage Timeline
		Ida Husted Harper is hired by the National American Woman Suffrage Association to launch a suffrage campaign in California.
		The National and American Suffrage Associations merge to become the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
		The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage is organized by Mrs.
	winningthevote.org /TLnational.html (2227 words)

	Institutions formed to promote Women's Suffrage: Women's History
		Carrie Catt served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1900 to 1904, and from 1915 to 1920, when Amendment 19 to the United States Constitution was passed, giving women the right to vote.
		The new organization was called the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and it held conventions, waged voting campaigns and distributed literature in support of women's voting rights.
		In 1890, the NWSA joined with the more moderate American Woman Suffrage Association to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
	www.worldbook.com /features/whm/html/whm011.html (452 words)

	Women's History — Chronology of Woman
		January 2, 1913: The National Woman's Party is founded by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns as an auxiliary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association for the exclusive purpose of securing passage of a federal amendment.
		In 1900 it is adopted as the official paper of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the merged suffrage organizations.
		1890: The American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association merge, becoming the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), pledged to state-by-state campaigns for suffrage.
	teacher.scholastic.com /researchtools/articlearchives/womhst/chrono.htm (2568 words)

	Open Collections Program: Women Working: National American Woman Suffrage Association Founded, 1890
		Financial report of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
		American Memory at the Library of Congress has digitized selections from the National American Woman Suffrage collection.
		In the absence of an amendment to the national constitution, it was the states that controlled the "time, place, and manner" of elections, and that included whether or not women could participate.
	ocp.hul.harvard.edu /ww/organizations-nawsa.html (485 words)

	Mississippi Women and the Woman Suffrage Amendment
		By 1890, national leaders, united in a large suffrage organization called the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), realized that to achieve all this they would have to “bring in the South.” They were all too aware, however, that this might be hard to do.
		National suffrage leaders concluded that since one of the most conservative states in the nation had given serious consideration to enfranchising women in order to restore White supremacy in politics, suffrage leaders might use the race issue to persuade the South to lead the way for woman suffrage.
		She was highly influential in convincing southern suffrage leaders to support the proposed amendment — even though a former friend and ally, New Orleans suffrage leader Kate Gordon, a strong state's rights suffragist, opposed woman suffrage by federal action and urged all southern women to oppose it.
	mshistory.k12.ms.us /features/feature23/women.html (3077 words)

	Anna Howard Shaw memorial of the National American woman suffrage association...
		The National Association and the Pennsylvania Association and women from other nearby state associations were represented at the services.
		It was difficult for this gallant patriot to understand how any American woman could fail to support the movement for woman suffrage because, to her logical mind, one could not be a loyal citizen without demanding every means of effectively exercising citizenship.
		Anna Howard Shaw was a great woman and died at the very summit of her career, having accomplished the work she set out to do and leaving behind her hosts of devoted friends and thousands of women who have been moved to finer and higher and more useful lives by her words and her example.
	www.oconee.k12.sc.us /whs2/MPARRIS/WebQuest_files/memshaw.htm (6780 words)

	Untitled Document
		The two antagonistic factions of the suffrage movement, which had followed separate paths since the end of the 1860s, had reunited in the 1890s in the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
		The Congressional union is drawing off from the National Association those women who feel it is possible to work for suffrage by the Federal route only.
		During the suffrage campaign in England this weapon was used for the double purpose of forcing the release of imprisoned militant suffragettes and of compelling the British government to act.
	marchand.ucdavis.edu /lessons/suffrage/suffrage.html (7498 words)

	WER: How Wisconsin Women Won the Ballot [14]
		The Wisconsin Woman's Suffrage Association and some of the county associations appointed committees on registration, food, Americanization, child welfare.
		Woman suffragists, being suffragists because of their interest in citizenship and good government, realized to the full the great issues at stake and supported the government with all their powers.
		However, the most pretentious arguments against suffrage at these hearings were for several years made by a representative of the German-American Alliance.
	www.library.wisc.edu /etext/WIReader/WER0124-14.html (527 words)

	History of Women's Suffrage: Women's History
		The National Woman Suffrage Association, led by Stanton and another suffragist named Susan B. Anthony, was the more radical of the two organizations.
		The two organizations united in 1890 to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
		One was the National Woman Suffrage Association, and the other was the American Woman Suffrage Association.
	www.worldbook.com /features/whm/html/whm010.html (878 words)

	Carrie Chapman Catt Albums Special Collections Bryn Mawr College Library
		Her skills as a speechwriter and organizer brought her national attention and in 1900 Catt succeeded Susan B. Anthony as President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
		In 1887 she joined the Iowa Woman Suffrage Association and served as state organizer from 1890-1892.
		The volume concludes with a picture of the final meeting of the Woman Suffrage Council in Washington on April 23, 1925.
	www.brynmawr.edu /library/speccoll/guides/catt.shtml (879 words)

	Alphabetical Index
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	www.ohiohistorycentral.org /alphabet.php?let=O (24 words)

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		Esther Morris- In 1869 she was the 1st woman to hold a judicial positin and led the 1st succesful state campaign for womans suffrage.
		In 1966 the NAACP (National organization for civil rights for women.) was formed, and was followed by an array of mass membership organizationsaddressing the needs of specific groups of women including Blacks, Latinas, Asian-Americans, lesbians, welfare recipiants, bussiness owners, aspriring politicians, and trades women and professional women of every sort.
		From 1920, woman have come a long way, but there is still a way to go before men and woman are treated exactly equal in society.
	www.mcps.k12.md.us /schools/springbrookhs/rights/WR/women3.html (555 words)

	womans suffrage - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
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		She co-founded the National Womans Suffrage Association in 1869.
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	Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
		Though she was not active throughout the decade that the ESL attempted to gain women's suffrage in Virginia, she served early on in the role as a bridge between Richmond's women activists to leaders at the national level of the suffrage cause.
		She went on to write that she believed "the great cause of Woman's Rights [was] that sphere of activity in His service to which God has called me..." By the 1880s, all four Clay sisters were actively involved in the Kentucky suffrage movement and worked to promote progressive causes.
		In 1893, she became president of the state's second suffrage association, the Virginia Suffrage Association.
	www.library.vcu.edu /jbc/speccoll/exhibit/crenshaw.html (4913 words)

	ANTHOZOA - LoveToKnow Article on ANTHOZOA
		She was vice- to esident-at-large of the National Womans Suffrage Association rn m the date of its organization in 1869 until 1892, when she nt came president.
		After 1854 she devoted herself almost to elusively to the agitation for womans rights, and became rn :ognized as one of the ablest and most zealous advocates, an th as a public speaker and as a writer, of the complete legal rn uality of the two sexes.
		In the decade preceding the as tbreak of the Civil War she took a prominent part in the as ti-slavery and temperance movements in New York, organizing cu 1852 the first womans state temperance society in America, and ch 1856 becoming the agent for New York state of the American th iti-slavery Society.
	89.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AN/ANTHOZOA.htm (7360 words)

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