![]() Women allowed to vote on school matters (would be rescinded by the state Supreme Court in 1888). ![]() March – Woman’s Council at Racine formed.South Side Woman Suffrage Association (Milwaukee).Grand Rapids and Centralia Equal Suffrage Association.Laura Ross was chosen as president, Reverend Olympia Brown was also chosen as an officer. State suffrage association reorganized as Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association (WWSA).Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell in attendance.September 7: John Bascom opens convention in Madison:.May: Mukwonago Woman Suffrage Society formed.Marathon County Woman Suffrage Association formed.Olympia Brown comes to WI and becomes Pastor of the Universalist Church in Racine.Madison Equal Suffrage Association formed with Emma Bascom of Madison as president.Sojourner Truth speaks briefly at the second annual convention of the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) in Boston.March: Third WI suffrage convention held: Lila Peckham was a featured speaker.Black men win the right to vote with the passage of the 15th Amendment.Ross elected president of Woman Suffrage Association of Wisconsin. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were in attendance. February: Second convention held, unrelated to the first, in Milwaukee:.Focused only on the vote and on state level organizing as the primary method. Considered more moderate and supported the 15th Amendment. AWSA – Created in Boston by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, and TW Higginson.Focused on national amendment to the Constitution and was women-led. They prioritized suffrage of women and fought for the 15th to include them. Opposed the 15th Amendment only including African American men. Considered more radical and took on a wide range of issues than just suffrage to guarantee women’s total equality. Two organizations were formed: National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) and American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). Nationally, the suffrage movement divided over issues of tactics, philosophies, and the 15th Amendment granting suffrage for African American men.Woman Suffrage Association of Wisconsin (WSAW) formed.Worked on forming a state organization – formed executive committee and finance committee.Dow, Joseph Baker, LR Stewart, and others. October 9-10 – First Wisconsin state convention for suffrage held in Janesville:.Black men in Wisconsin receive the vote: after being denied the ability to vote in an 1865 referendum, Ezekiel Gillespie sued and the state Supreme Court ruled in his favor.By and large, women work to support the war effort in the Sanitary Commission or go to work outside the home, in the field, or at university. ![]()
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