The Fight for Womens Suffrage in Virginia: A Pivotal Struggle

Suffrage in Virginia Name Instructor Date Virginia after the 18th century: Suffrage in Virginia Introduction Voting is a civil right that many Americans have fought for ever since time immemorial. It is a right whose history in Virginia runs back to the late 19th century when the Congress on February 26th 1869 passed the 15th Amendment. According to the 15th Amendment, African American men had the right to vote just like any white man regardless of their color. However, not all American women were in harmony with this Amendment as it did not serve the equality purpose that this gender anticipated thus leading to a huge split over the American women. The split brought about a women’s movement in 1848. Lucy stone serves as the pioneer of the American Women Suffrage Association that supported the 15th Amendment while rival National Women Suffrage Association led by Elizabeth Stanton and Susan Anthony did not support the 15th Amendment but rather aimed at fighting for equal voting rights for the female gender in Virginia. The two groups later merged to form the United National Women Suffrage Association in 1890 whose main aim was to fight for the expansion of electorate to all American women to vote. The ratification of the 15th Amendment served as a clear dawn for a serious fight for equal voting right. Unlike the 14th amendment whose Section 2 ignored women citizenship thus rejected their privilege to vote, this Amendment paved way for American to vote without restrictions on the basis of color or race. In 1870, Anna Whitehead Bodeker efforts to organize the Virginia State Suffrage Association in the 1870 did not yield so much on women vo