The Americans 9.2
National Association of Colored Women
(NACW) two organizations merged, moral education of AA race (Josephine Ruffin)
3 part suffrage strategy
1. convince state legislatures to grant women right to vote (suceeded in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Idaho) 2. pursued court cases to test 14th amendment, women are citizens 3. national constitutional amendment that gave women right to vote
2000 how many women had jobs
1/5 (25% were in manufacturing)
What colleges refused women, what did they do instead
Columbia, Brown, Harvard, produced separate colleges
National Women Suffrage Association
Founded by Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton which morphed with another group to be NAtional American Woman Suffrage Association
Name 3 Women colleges
Vassar, Smith, Wellesley
women typically held ____ jobs
least skilled (assumed to be supporting themselves)
what industries fought against women suffrage
liquor, textile
Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe
prominent suffrage leaders
70% of working women in 1870 were
servants
14th amendment
states denying male citizens right to vote would lose congressional represntation (women are citizens)
which women did domestic labor
unskilled/ schooled, AA, unmarried imigrants