NAWSA
Proper noun
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NAWSA
(US, historical, 1890–1920) Initialism of National American Woman Suffrage Association, successor of NWSA and AWSA.
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Andrea Moore Kerr, Lucy Stone: speaking out for equality (1992) ch 1 In 1890, the two groups merged to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
The NAWSA then mobilized to obtain support state-by-state, and by 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote.
Burns & Ward, p.179 Over her objections, the organizations merged, creating the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
In 1900, she succeeded Susan B. Anthony as the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
NAWSA women’s work to aid the war effort turned them into highly visible symbols of nationalism.