Back الجمعية الأمريكية المطالبة بحق المرأة في الاقتراع Arabic মার্কিন নারী ভোটাধিকার সমিতি Bengali/Bangla American Woman Suffrage Association German انجمن حق رأی زن آمریکایی FA American Woman Suffrage Association French Associação Americana pelo Sufrágio Feminino Portuguese Американская женская суфражистская ассоциация Russian American Woman Suffrage Association Swedish
| Abbreviation | AWSA |
|---|---|
| Successor | National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) |
| Formation | 1869 |
| Dissolved | 1890[1] |
Key people | Lucy Stone, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Henry Brown Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, Mary Livermore, Josephine Ruffin, Henry Ward Beecher[2] |
The American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) was a single-issue national organization formed in 1869 to work for women's suffrage in the United States. The AWSA lobbied state governments to enact laws granting or expanding women's right to vote in the United States. Lucy Stone, its most prominent leader, began publishing a newspaper in 1870 called the Woman's Journal.[3] It was designed as the voice of the AWSA, and it eventually became a voice of the women's movement as a whole.
In 1890, the AWSA merged with a rival organization, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). The new organization, called the National American Woman Suffrage Association, was initially led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who had been the leaders of the NWSA.
- ^ "American Woman Suffrage Association". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
- ^ "American Woman Suffrage Association". History of U.S. Woman's Suffrage. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
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