HIS 72B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Page Act Of 1875, Foot Binding, National American Woman Suffrage Association
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Reunited women"s suffrage movement: reunion and differing strategies, new arguments for the vote. Suffrage in the 1900s: alice paul and the congressional union, world war i. Reunited women"s suffrage movement: reunion and differing strategies. Organize for the vote at the local level. Susan b. anthony and elizabeth cady stanton formed it. Strategy is to operate at the federal level because it is too time consuming to organize at the local level. Some of the old animosities that divided the women"s suffrage movement in 1869 were fading as the 1900s approached, and their differences softened. Reformed as the national american woman suffrage association (nawsa) and made a simultaneous effort to organize at the local and federal levels. At the local level, black women"s suffrage movements arose across the country. Ida b. wells-barnett formed the alpha suffrage club in 1913. Working for women"s suffrage while also working to fight racism at the core of many white women"s suffrage movements.
