Equal Suffrage League was a suffrage organization founded by Sarah J. Garnet in Brooklyn, New York, in the late 1880s to advocate for voting rights for African American women. Dr. Susan Smith McKinney Steward was a contributor to the founding of the organization. The group worked to abolish both gender and race bias.
After Garnet became the Superintendent of the Suffrage Department for the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), the Equal Suffrage League affiliated with the National Association of Colored Women. The small organization initially met in Garnet's seamstress shop. In 1907 the Equal Suffrage League and National Association of Colored Women jointly supported a resolution supporting the principles of the Niagara Movement that advocated for equal rights for all American citizens.
The organization was short-lived, ending when Garnet died in 1911.
References
- Sterling, Dorothy, ed. (1984). We are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 442.
- ^ Garner, Karen (2001). "Equal Suffrage League". In Nina Mjagkij (ed.). Organizing Black America: an encyclopedia of African American associations. Taylor & Francis. p. 224. ISBN 0-8153-2309-3. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
- ^ Mjagkij, Nina, ed. (2001). Organizing Black America: An Encyclopedia of African American Associations. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc. p. 224.
- 1880s establishments in New York (state)
- 1880s in New York City
- 1911 disestablishments in New York (state)
- 1911 in New York City
- 19th century in Brooklyn
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- Women's clubs in the United States
- African-American history in New York City
- History of women in New York City
- Feminism in New York City
- Women's suffrage in New York (state)
- Women's suffrage advocacy groups in the United States