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National Woman Suffrage Association
American political organization
Also known as: NWSA
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
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History & Society
- Date:
- 1869 - 1890
- Headquarters:
- New York City
- Areas Of Involvement:
- women’s suffrage
National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), American organization, founded in 1869 and based in New York City, that was created by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton when the women’s rights movement split into two groups over the issue of suffrage for African American men. Considered the more radical of the two, the NWSA gave priority to securing women the right to vote, and the group often stirred public debate through its reform proposals on a number of social issues, including marriage and divorce. Having invited all women’s suffrage societies in the United States to become auxiliaries of the NWSA, ...(100 of 137 words)