The Women’s Movement during the Civil War Period
to mobilize the power of women, founding the Woman’s Loyal National League in 1863
bleeding country may be cheered through the storm and darkness to a glorious peace.”
(1865), which emancipated all persons of African descent held to involuntary service or
over 400,000 signatures to Washington by 1864.
At the end of the Civil War, women’s rights advocates became concerned with
again in May 1866, women’s rights advocates founded a new organization, the American
(1868) granting the rights of citizenship to African Americans, which had been introduced
(1870), which protected the right to vote for African Americans, posed a dilemma for
Blackwell chose to support them.
Thomas undy eterson, the rst African
American to vote under the Fifteenth
Amendment, cast his ballot at a Perth Amboy
city charter referendum, March 31, 1870.
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