the national woman suffrage association (nwsa) was formed on may 15, 1869 in new york city.anthony, susan brownwell, ida husted harper, matilda joslyn gage. history of woman suffrage: 1900-1920. new york: little & ives, 1922, pp. 1. the national association was created in response to a split in the american equal rights associationflexner, eleanor. century of struggle: the woman's rights movement in the united states. new york: atheneum, 1971, pp. 151-52. over whether the woman's movement should support the fifteenth amendment to the united states constitution.wheeler, marjorie spruil. "one woman, one vote." humanities 16.1(1995). academic search alumni edition. web. 25 march 2010. its founders, susan b. anthony and elizabeth cady stanton, opposed the fifteenth amendment unless it included the vote for women.marilley, suzanne m. woman suffrage and the origins of liberal feminism in the united states, 1820-1920. cambridge: harvard up, 1996, pp. 76. men were able to join the organization as members; however, women solely controlled the leadership of the group.oakley, mary anne b. elizabeth cady stanton. old westbury: the feminist press, 1972, pp. 90. the nwsa worked to secure women's enfranchisement through a federal constitutional amendment. contrarily, its rival, the american woman suffrage association (awsa), believed success could be more easily achieved through state-by-state campaigns. in 1890 the nwsa and the awsa merged to form the national american woman suffrage association (nawsa).coolidge, olivia. women's rights: the suffrage movement in america, 1848 - 1920. new york: e.p. dutton, 1966, pp. 124-25.  ==the split of the suffrage movement== although the harbingers of dissent within different factions of the woman suffrage movement may be seen in the national woman's rights convention of 1860 (the last national convention before the outbreak of the war, woman's rights activism largely ceased during the civil war. the movement re-emerged to the national scene in 1866 to organize formally under a new name - the american equal rights association (aera) - and defined by a new platform.campbell, karylan kohrs. man cannot speak for her: a critical study of early feminist rhetoric, volume 1. westport: praeger, 1989, pp. 84. confronted by the proposal of the reconstruction amendments, which introduced the word "male" to the united states constitution, the aera eventually dissolved over whether suffrage for emancipated slaves and women would be pursued simultaneously. the schism was cemented by the decision of republican lawmakers and their former [[abolitionism in
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