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Even NAWSA's extra radical Congressional Committee, which might change into the National Woman's Party, failed African-American women, most visibly by refusing to permit them to march within the nation's first suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. While western ladies, state suffrage organizations, and the AWSA focused on securing women's voting rights for specific states, efforts at the nationwide degree persisted through a method of congressional testimony, petitioning, and lobbying. National Association of Colored Women, of which Frances E.W. Mary Ann Shadd Cary, the second African-American girl to obtain a degree from Howard University Law School, joined the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1878 when she delivered their convention's keynote deal with. When the Fifteenth Amendment enfranchised African-American males, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony abandoned the AERA, which supported common suffrage, to found the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869, saying black males shouldn't receive the vote earlier than white girls. Their authorized argument, identified because the "New Departure" strategy, contended that the Fourteenth Amendment (granting common citizenship) and Fifteenth Amendment (granting the vote irrespective of race) together assured voting rights to ladies. While scattered movements and organizations dedicated to women's rights existed previously, the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York is historically held as the beginning of the American ladies's rights movement. |
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