Women's loyal national league
- Stanton and Suzan B. Anthony, organized the Women’s Loyal National League to fight slavery in 1863
- The League was the first national women's political organization in the United States. It marked a continuation of the shift of women's activism from moral suasion to political action, and from a women's movement that was loosely structured to one that was more formally organized. It also contributed to the development of a new generation of leaders and activists for the women's movement. - They organized the collection of 400,000 signatures in support of the emancipation of slaves. - Elizabeth did not, however, support the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. She did not think it was right to give more legal protection and voting rights to African American men when women of all races did not have the same rights. Other leaders in the women’s rights movement (Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Julia Ward Howe) argued against Stanton’s position. After the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments were ratified, Elizabeth and others began to argue that these amendments actually gave women the right to vote. Anthony (in 1872), Stanton (in 1880), and many others went to the polls and demanded to vote. |