The American Equal Right association
The American Equal Rights Association (AERA), also known as the Equal Rights Association, was an organization formed by women's rights and black rights activists in 1866 in the United States. Its goal was to join the cause of sexual equality with that of racial equality. Tensions between proponents of the dissimilar goals caused the AERA to split apart in 1869.
Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony proposed the idea at an American Antislacery Society meeting in Boston in January 1866. Stone had been involved with abolitionismthrough the American Anti-Slavery Society for 18 years, and had shifted her energies mainly to women's rights issues. Anthony's focus was primarily women's suffrage. The goal was to unite the energies of the two movements and focus on the common goal of universal suffrage. Anthony, Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass founded the group.
Lucy Stone and Susan B. Anthony proposed the idea at an American Antislacery Society meeting in Boston in January 1866. Stone had been involved with abolitionismthrough the American Anti-Slavery Society for 18 years, and had shifted her energies mainly to women's rights issues. Anthony's focus was primarily women's suffrage. The goal was to unite the energies of the two movements and focus on the common goal of universal suffrage. Anthony, Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass founded the group.
