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Crusade for a constitutional amendment
Since the 15th Amendment only protected freedmen's voting rights, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) focused on obtaining a constitutional amendment enfranchising women. This 1873 petition signed by NWSA founders Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony urges Congress to pass legislation giving women the right to vote. Neither Stanton nor Anthony lived to see the 19th Amendment added to the U.S. Constitution. |