The picture above is showing how people stood up for their rights to be equal, and made signs to make more of a point. The picture above is showing the American Equal Rights Association protesting and meeting together for their cause.
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This egual rights group was founded in 1866, by Lucy Stone, Susan B Anthony, Frederick Douglas, Elizabeth Cady Santon, and Martha Coffin Wright. After the war ended, people who participated in the women's rights and anti-slavery activism, had the need to join either of the multiple causes. Which were the women's rights and the rights for African Americans. In 1866, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper gave a rememorable speech at the annual Women's Rights Convention, also talking about bringing the two similar causes together, to make them one. Through that year, to 1867, there was a campaign in Kansas. Where together black and women suffrage were being put up for vote. Later in 1867, New York republicans removed the female suffrage out of their suffrage rights bill.
“The chance is now given you to end in a day the bondage of centuries, and to rise in one bound from social degradation to the place of common equality with all other varieties of men" - Frederick Douglas "The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it." -Susan B. Anthony |