Constitution of the American Woman Suffrage Association and the History of its Formation

Constitution of the American Woman Suffrage Association and the History of its Formation

Constitution of the American Woman Suffrage Association

This page from the Constitution of the American Woman Suffrage Association shows who served as officers in 1880. Rival to Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Staton's National Women's Suffrage Association, the AWSA aligned with the Republican party and supported the Fifteenth Amendment, which granted only African American men the right to vote.
Highlighted in blue, Myra Bradwell is listed as serving as the Corresponding Secretary for the organization. Her high position within this organization shows her political commitment to gender and racial equality in voting, an issue that divided the suffrage movement.

Press of George H. Ellis: Boston, 1881.

National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection Library of Congress, control number 93838291: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbnawsa.n8291

Library of Congress

1881

American Woman Suffrage Association.
Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893, former owner.

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Corresponding Secretary - Myra Bradwell, Ill.

Corresponding Secretary
Myra Bradwell, Ill.

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