... struggled to persuade men as well as women to amend the constitution. Yet, she left Tennessee in 1883. Elizabeth Meriwether's sister-in-law Lide Meriwether founded, and was the President of Tennessee's first women's suffrage organization in 1889. She resigned in 1900. A disappointing break in the continuous fight occurred for many years following Lide Meriwether's resignation. After 1906 many organizations ... . This movement split into two factions, with Stanton and Anthony leading a more radical movement in New York and Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and Julia Ward Howe leading the more ...

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