may 1, 1869 - Equal Rights Association convention. Frederick Douglass begs for women to let black men's suffrage take priority

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-Douglass said women weren't urgently battling violence.
-women's suffrage leaders were split
-Embittered, Elizabeth Cady Stanton lashed out against the enfranchisement of uneducated freedmen and immigrants, while educated white women were barred from the polls.
-the convention broke up

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