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Female activism, Opposition = Red - Coggle Diagram
Women
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Female activism
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Suffrage societies
National Woman Suffrage Association
- 1869
- Main leaders were Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Coay
- They formed when the Womens rights movement split into two over the development of African American civil rights (worry that if both were being campaigned for, womens suffrage may become buried)
- They gave priority to securing the right to vote for women
American Woman Suffrage Association
- 1869
- Lucy Stone was the most prominent leader and she published the newspaper 'womens journal'
- Single issue national organisation to work for womens suffrage
- They lobbied state Governments to enact laws for womens votes
National American Woman Suffrage Association
- 1890
- Created by the merger of two existing organisations
- Membership was 7 thousand at formation which eventually increased to two million making it the largest voluntary organisation in the nation
Womens temperance union was set up
- They strove to abolish the liquour trade, reduce consumption of alchohol and secure pledges of abstinence
- They were largely succesful in the 1917 18th amendment which was passed to ban the sale, import and manufacture of alchohol
Daughters of the American Revolution
- Set up in 1890
- They did not think women should get the vote
- They believed in an exclusive nationalism and barred or discriminated against non-white people
National Association of Coloured Women (NACW)
- 1896
- Focused upon the right to vote as well as campaigning to stop discrimination and lynching
- Ida B Wells was a key member of the organisation
National Association Opposed to Womens Suffrage
- 1911
- Established by Josephine Jewell Dodge in New York
Margaret Sanger
- 1917
- She opened the first birth control clinic in New York
- 1923
- She set up the American Birth Control League (ABCL)
- Promoted the founding of birth control clinics and encouraged women to control their own fertility
Phyllis Schlafley established the national committee to stop the ERA
- 1972
- She opposed feminisim, voting rights and abortion rights
- When she began campaigning against the ERA it had already been ratified by 28 of the required 38 states
- 7 more states ratified the amendment after schlafley began organising the oppositio but another 5 states rescined their ratifications
- The last state to ratify was Indiana to cast the tie-breaking vote in Jan 1977
- The ERA was narrowly defeated
- Schlafley was largely the reason for this due to her impact she had on people against the movement
- The ERA's defeat destroyed the momentum of the the women's movement
Womens Organisation for National prohibition reform
- 1929
- Led by Pauline Sabin
- They still fight for protection against the harm of prohibition
- They supported the end of prohibition in order to gain more jobs and tax money
- They thought it encouraged disrespect of the law and the constitution
National Womens Political Cacus
- 1971
- encouraged women to stand for election and get involved in the Government
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