American Woman Suffrage Association
The American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) was a single-issue national organization formed in Boston in 1869. The AWSA lobbied state governments to enact laws granting or expanding women's right to vote in the United States. One of the AWSA most prominent leader, Lucy Stone, began publishing a newspaper in 1870 called the "Woman's Journal". AWSA was co-founded by an African American woman Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, and strong women's right advocate, abolitionist, and published poet of her era. AWSA was designed as the voice of the AWSA, it eventually became a voice of the women's movement as a whole.

In 1890, the AWSA merged with a rival organization, the National Woman Suffrage Association. The new organization, called the National American Woman Suffrage Association, was initially led by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who had been the leaders of the NWSA.
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National Woman Suffrage Association
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American Woman Suffrage Association
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American Woman Suffrage Association
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