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Formed in 1890, NAWSA was the result of a merger between two rival factions--the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, and the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), led by Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell, and Julia Ward Howe. These opposing groups were organized in the late 1860s, partly as the result of a disagreement over strategy. NWSA favored women's enfranchisement through a federal constitutional amendment, while AWSA believed success could be more easily achieved through state-by-state campaigns. NAWSA combined both of these techniques, securing the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 through a series of well-orchestrated state campaigns under the dynamic direction of Carrie Chapman Catt.

Head of suffrage parade, Washington, D.C..

March 3, 1913

Suffrage parade, New York City, May 6, 1912

Inez Boissevain, wearing white cape, seated on white horse at the suffrage parade in Washington, D.C., 1913. Inez died of an anemia-related disease and became a martyr for the cause.

Carrie Chapman Catt,

1850-1920

Head of the NAWSA

Alice Paul,

1885-1970

Head of National Women’s Party (CUWS)

Lucy Burns

1879-1966

Worked closely with Alice Paul as leaders of CUWS

1909

WA Post, 1896

CUWS Mass Meeting Poster