Women's Suffrage

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in public, and they began
to evolve a philosophy of their own place in society. When the 15th amendment,
which gave black men the power to vote, was passed women became furious. Julia
Ward Howe said “For the first time, we saw... every Negro man govern every white
woman. This seemed to me intollerable tyranny.”
After the fifteenth amendment was passed, the women's suffrage movement
turned its attention towards gaining the right to vote state by state. Susan B.
Anthony, a leader in the movement, met a wealthy businessman named George
Francis Train while campaigning in Kansas. He offered her the money to launch a
suffrage newspaper. In return he would be allowed to write a column about
economics. Thus the Revolution was born. It's motto was “Men, their rights and
nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.”
Lucy Stone and a group of conservative suffragists broke away from
Anthony's National Woman's suffrage Association and founded the American Woman
Suffrage ...

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