"For much of the 1850s [Stanton and Anthony] agitated against the denial of basic economic freedoms to women. Later, they unsuccessfully lobbied Congress to include women in the provisions of the 14th and 15th Amendments (extending citizenship rights and granting voting rights to freedmen, respectively)"
-"The Women's Rights Movement, 1848-1920"
Anthony pioneered the idea of an amendment giving women the right to vote.
"In 1877, [Susan B. Anthony} gathered petitions from 26 states with 10,000 signatures, but Congress laughed at them. She appeared before every Congress from 1869 to 1906 to ask for passage of a suffrage amendment" |
"Led initially by Stanton and then by Anthony, the NAWSA began to draw on the support of women activists in organizations as diverse as the Women’s Trade Union League, the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), and the National Consumer’s League, For the next two decades, the NAWSA worked as a nonpartisan organization focused on gaining the vote in states, though managerial problems and a lack of coordination initially limited its success"
-"The Women's Rights Movement, 1848-1920"