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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).
Mullane, Deirdre, editor. Crossing the Danger Water: Three hundred years of African-American writing. Anchor, 1993.
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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,...