National Woman Suffrage Association

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The National Woman Suffrage Association was a leading 19th-century American organization, founded by prominent activists including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, that campaigned for women’s right to vote and broader legal and social reforms.

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National Woman Suffrage Association canonical 13

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Predicate Object
instanceOf nonprofit organization
political advocacy organization
women's suffrage organization
campaignsFor federal woman suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution
removal of legal disabilities of married women
women's access to education
women's access to employment
women's property rights
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
dissolved 1890
fieldOfWork civil rights
constitutional amendment advocacy
political reform
women's suffrage
follows early women's rights conventions in the United States
foundedBy Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Henry Browne Blackwell
surface form: Henry Blackwell

Lucy Stone
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Susan B. Anthony
hasPart state suffrage associations
hasPurpose advocacy for women's right to vote
legal reform
promotion of broader women's rights
social reform
women's suffrage
headquartersLocation New York City
ideology feminism
women's rights movement
inception 1869
May 1869
influenced National American Woman Suffrage Association
later U.S. feminist organizations
language English
locationOfFormation New York City
mergedInto National American Woman Suffrage Association
movement American women's suffrage movement
first-wave feminism
notableLeader Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony
notableWork lobbying the U.S. Congress for a woman suffrage amendment
organizing national woman suffrage conventions
opposedBy anti-suffrage movement
organizedIn 19th century
president Elizabeth Cady Stanton
publication The Revolution
stateOfFormation New York
vicePresident Susan B. Anthony

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton coFounded National Woman Suffrage Association
American Woman Suffrage Association rivalOrganization National Woman Suffrage Association
American Woman Suffrage Association cooperatedWith National Woman Suffrage Association
American Woman Suffrage Association mergedWith National Woman Suffrage Association
Isabella Beecher Hooker associatedWith National Woman Suffrage Association
Susan B. Anthony coFounded National Woman Suffrage Association
Matilda Joslyn Gage memberOf National Woman Suffrage Association
National American Woman Suffrage Association mergedFrom National Woman Suffrage Association
History of Woman Suffrage focusesOn National Woman Suffrage Association
Virginia Minor women’s suffrage case associatedWith National Woman Suffrage Association
Blatch–Stanton family coFounded National Woman Suffrage Association
subject surface form: Elizabeth Cady Stanton
May Wright Sewall memberOf National Woman Suffrage Association
American Equal Rights Association followed by National Woman Suffrage Association