History of the United States I / Unit 16 USH1 2289 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The National Woman Suffrage Association
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The idea
Stanton and Anthony organised the National Woman Suffrage Association in eighteen sixty-nine, aggrieved that abolitionists they had worked beside did not demand women's inclusion.
In practice
An association founded for immediate rights rather than future ones.
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Its object was to secure state and national protection for women citizens in the exercise of their right to vote. Susan B. Anthony of Rochester was president.
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