National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), American organization, founded in 1869, that was created bySusan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In 1869, the women's suffrage movement split over the 15th Amendment, which granted the vote to black men, but not to women. Some women, like Lucy Stone, thought that any increase in the franchise was a step in the right direction; others, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony thought that an amendment allowing black men to vote without granting women's suffrage was dangerous. In 1890, with Reconstruction over, and the fight over the 15th Amendment long past, the two camps reconciled and founded the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
State Presidents and Officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1892
Analysis: The National Woman Suffrage Association was created in response to a split in the American Equal Rights Association over whether the woman's movement should support the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/exhibits/suffrage/nawsa.html http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/405576/National-Woman-Suffrage-Association-NWSA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Woman_Suffrage_Association