Susan B. Anthony
(1820-1906)
“Susan B. Anthony is perhaps the most widely known suffragist of her generation and has become an icon of the woman’s suffrage movement… Anthony and Stanton founded the American Equal Rights Association (AERA)… A rift appeared among those, like [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton and Anthony and Frederick Douglass, who had been allies in the fight for universal suffrage. Anthony and Stanton were hurt that Douglass supported the Fifteenth Amendment, which granted the vote to Black men only. They felt he had abandoned woman suffrage. Douglass, in turn, was hurt by the insulting arguments of Anthony and Stanton against African Americans. They all thought that it would be impossible to get the vote for both women and African Americans at the same time, and disagreed with the others’ priorities. The rift turned ugly at a public meeting of the AERA held in New York City in 1869… [and in reaction] Stanton, Anthony and others formed the [NAWSA] and focused solely on a federal woman’s suffrage amendment.” (National Park Service)
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