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Ebell Society, founded in 1876 in Oakland as the International Academy for the Advancement of Women. The club's purpose was the advancement of women in cultural, industrial and intellectual pursuits. Francisca Club, private women's club in San Francisco; Friday Morning Club, Los Angeles, founded 1891. Its second clubhouse building, built in ...
Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) – in South Bristol, New York, 1848, was the first woman in the U.S. to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights. [40] Helen Appo Cook (1837–1913) – prominent African American community activist and leader in the women's club movement. [41] [42]
The Equal Suffrage Study Club was founded in the East Side [4] of Wilmington, Delaware, at the Thomas Garrett House. The club focused on studying suffrage issues at every level, whether local, state, national, or worldwide, especially as relating to women's rights and advancement. [5] Fannie Hopkins Hamilton served the founding treasurer.
Congressional Union for Women Suffrage; Fannie Jackson Coppin Club [3] Los Angeles Forum of Colored Women. [4] National American Woman Suffrage Association; National Woman's Party [5] Political Equality Club of Alameda [6] Votes for Women Club [7] Women's Christian Temperance Union [8] Woman's Club of Palo Alto [9] Young Women's Suffrage Club ...
As women's clubs grew, so did suffrage organizations. [209] African-American women's clubs like the NACW not only fought for women's suffrage but also for the right of black men to vote. [75] Many black women were involved in groups like the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). [210]
The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed on May 15, 1869, to work for women's suffrage in the United States. Its main leaders were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton . It was created after the women's rights movement split over the proposed Fifteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution , which would in effect extend ...
Colored Women's Suffrage Club of New York. [6] Colored Women's Suffrage Club . [7] Colored Women's Voting Club in Roanoke . [8] Des Moines League of Colored Women Voters, formed in 1912 . [9] El Paso Negro Woman's Civic and Enfranchisement League, started in 1918 . [10] Federated Colored Women's Clubs. [11] Iowa Federation of Colored Women's ...
The demand for women's suffrage began to gather strength in the 1840s, emerging from the broader movement for women's rights. In 1848, the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, passed a resolution in favor of women's suffrage despite opposition from some of its organizers, who believed the idea was too extreme. [3]