Higginson was an outspoken supporter of woman's right to vote. He invited Howe to attend her first suffrage meeting in November 1868, where she was introduced to Lucy Stone
. For a time he served...
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, who had long been an advocate of women's rights and suffrage, became more actively involved in supporting these movements after the Civil War. In 1878 she was invited by Susan B. Anthony
and...
Bearden, Jim, and Linda Jean Butler. Shadd: The Life and Times of Mary Shadd Cary. NC Press, 1977.
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After February 1869: Two years after its launch, the American...
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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).
Dow, Bonnie J. “How the Battle of Memory Was Won”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 5, Sept.–Oct. 2014, pp. 3-4.
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Between 1881 and 1886: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony,...