Mullane, Deirdre, editor. Crossing the Danger Water: Three hundred years of African-American writing. Anchor, 1993.
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American Equal Rights Association
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Julia Ward Howe | At a national convention, the American Woman Suffrage Association
was formed when the American Equal Rights Association
split over its support for the proposed fifteenth amendment to the US constitution (which gave the vote to... |
| Textual Production | Sojourner Truth | ST
gave an address in New York at the first meeting of the American Equal Rights Association
(an organization dedicated to securing suffrage rights irrespective of race or gender). |
Timeline
After February 1869
Two years after its launch, the American Equal Rights Association
voted to support the US Congress
's proposed fifteenth amendment (which enabled male suffrage for Black people without waiting for white women to attain the vote).
Between 1881 and 1886
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
, Susan B. Anthony
, and Matilda Joslyn Gage
published the first three volumes of their History of Woman Suffrage. They dedicated the first volume to the memory of Mary Wollstonecraft
.
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