Heather Cox Richardson
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That Convention's Declaration of Sentiments, patterned explicitly on the Declaration of Independence, asserted that all men and women are created equal, and that the history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tendency.
Tyranny over her.
It listed the many ways in which men had fraudulently deprived women of their most sacred rights and insisted that women receive immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of these United States.
While the National Women's Suffrage Association excluded men from its membership, the American Woman Suffrage Association made a point of including men equally, as well as black women suffragists, to indicate that they were interested in the universal right to vote, and only in that right, believing the rest of the rights their rivals demanded would come through voting.
The women's suffrage movement had initial success in the Western territories, both because lawmakers there were hoping to attract women for their male heavy communities, and because the same lawmakers were furious at the growing noise about black voting.
Wyoming Territory granted women the right to vote in eighteen sixty nine, and lawmakers in Utah Territory followed suit in eighteen seventy, expecting that women would vote against polygamy there.
When women in fact supported polygamy, Utah lawmakers tried unsuccessfully to take their vote away, and the movement for women's suffrage in the West slowed dramatically.
Suffragists had hoped that women would be included in the fifteenth Amendment, and when they were not, decided to test their right to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment in the eighteen seventy two election.
According to its statement that anyone born in the US was a citizen, they were certainly citizens, and thus should be able to vote.
In New York State, Susan B.
Anthony voted successfully, but was later tried and convicted in an all male courtroom in which she did not have the right to testify for the crime of voting.
In Missouri, a voting registrar named Rhys Happersett refused to permit suffragist Virginia Minor to register.
Minor sued Happerset, and the case went all the way to the Supreme Court.
In a unanimous decision in eighteen seventy five, the justices decided that women were indeed citizens, but that citizenship did not necessarily convey the right to vote.
This decision meant the fat was in the fire for black Americans in the South, as it paved the way for white supremacists to keep them from the polls in eighteen seventy six.
But it was also a blow to suffragists who recast their claims to voting by moving away from the idea that they had a human right to consent to their government, and toward the idea that they would be better and more principled voters than the black men and immigrants who, under the law anyway, had the right to vote.
For the next two decades, the women's suffrage movement drew its power from the many women's organizations put together across the country by women of all races and backgrounds who came together to stop excessive drinking, clean up the sewage in city streets, protect children, stop lynching, and promote civil rights.
Black women like educator Mary Church Tyrrell and journalist Josephine Saint Pierre Ruffin, publisher of the Women's Era, brought a broad lens to the movement from their work for civil rights, but they could not miss that black women stood in between the movements for black rights and women's rights, a position scholar Kimberly Crenshaw would identify in the twentieth century as intersectionality.
reality.
In eighteen ninety, the two major suffrage associations merged into the National American Women's Suffrage Association and worked to change voting laws at the state level.
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