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LEd the proponet of woman suffrage, the right to vote, said "{I} would sooner cut off my right hand than ask the ballot for the black man and not for women" Tried to vote 150 times in 10 states.
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in 1871 and 1872, Susan B. Anthony and other woman votes at least 150 times in 10 and the District of Columbia.
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African American women founded this organization by merging two earlier organizations. Managed nurseries, reading rooms, and kindergartens.
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Concentrated on
1) painstaking organizations
2) close ties between local, state, abd national workers
3) establishing a wide base of support
4) cautious lobbying
5) gracious, kadylike behavior -
Gave women rights to wote
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Members advsnce their causes by entering saloons, singing, praying, and urging saloomkeepers to stop seeling alcohol. As the momrntum grew Frances Willard from a small midwest religious group. Largest women's group in the nations history.