The Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention in 1848 was the start of the women’s fight for the right to vote. The convention was organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, when they were both denied entry to the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention in London. Stanton had written the Declaration of Sentiments, this declaration pointed out ways that “history was a record of men’s injustices toward women,” (Nash, pg. 11.) After the convention in Seneca Falls, New York, more conventions started to happen and they would discuss women’s suffrage campaigns and committees on how to further this movement. A close partner of Stanton was Susan B. Anthony, an avid abolitionist, whom she met at an anti-slavery convention. Although they were very different
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Though some saw the war as one fight for human rights, others wanted the two movements to be separate. Some abolitionists believed that also fight for women’s suffrage would slow the freedom for African Americans, while southern suffrage fighters could not stand to help those of another race. “Because only a few white women in the South would dare even think about violating one of its most rigid taboos and work together with blacks, let alone align themselves with blacks against white men,” (Olson, pg.45.) During the war, the women’s rights movement was halted until slavery was abolished, but after the war ended the main issue was black suffrage. Stanton and Anthony created American Equal Rights Association (AERA) to merge the two movements and make one big movement for rights for all Americans. AERA wanted to have the wording of the Fourteenth Amendment changed, seeing as it specifically only protected the rights of recently freed ex slaves. This dispute split AERA into two, those who supported African Americans’ rights over women’s rights and those who supported women’s rights over African Americans’ rights. Anthony and Stanton did not want to suspend the movement for their rights, they distanced themselves from abolitionists and began to campaign only for women’s
Though some saw the war as one fight for human rights, others wanted the two movements to be separate. Some abolitionists believed that also fight for women’s suffrage would slow the freedom for African Americans, while southern suffrage fighters could not stand to help those of another race. “Because only a few white women in the South would dare even think about violating one of its most rigid taboos and work together with blacks, let alone align themselves with blacks against white men,” (Olson, pg.45.) During the war, the women’s rights movement was halted until slavery was abolished, but after the war ended the main issue was black suffrage. Stanton and Anthony created American Equal Rights Association (AERA) to merge the two movements and make one big movement for rights for all Americans. AERA wanted to have the wording of the Fourteenth Amendment changed, seeing as it specifically only protected the rights of recently freed ex slaves. This dispute split AERA into two, those who supported African Americans’ rights over women’s rights and those who supported women’s rights over African Americans’ rights. Anthony and Stanton did not want to suspend the movement for their rights, they distanced themselves from abolitionists and began to campaign only for women’s