Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association

In 1870, within a year of forming the American Woman Suffrage Association, Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, and others founded the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association. MWSA was affiliated with AWSA and shared both its goals and activities. The merger, in 1890, of AWSA with the National Woman Suffrage Association to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), prompted Alice Stone Blackwell and Ellen Batelle Dietrick to write a new constitution in April 1892. The constitution was designed to enable MWSA to become a truly state-wide organization, and to increase its membership and voice in NAWSA. MWSA was incorporated in December 1892. In 1901, Massachusetts healed its own National/American split as MWSA merged with the smaller National Suffrage Association of Massachusetts. MWSA became the Massachusetts League of Women Voters in 1920.

From the description of Records in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1893-1918 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008709

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