In 1869, Cady Stanton and B. Anthony formed the Nation Women Suffrage Association. “They focused on women's right to vote. They thought that African American men, as well as women, should have the right to vote at the same time” (Isecke 17). One obstacle they had was trying to go to the Supreme Court to argue that with the 14th Amendment they had the right to vote, the leaders made three approaches, then the women argued that they were citizens and should be able to vote. However, the Supreme Court has not changed its mind that women do not have the right to vote. So, because they saw that the Supreme Court wasn't going to change its mind, they went state by state to try to fight voting rights. As a result, Wyoming became the first state to grant women suffrage and in that state they were allowed to vote. Slowly things began to change but they still wouldn't get the right to vote, it would still be years before they could vote. Forty years after the first convention of the women's rights movement in 1848, the first international council of women was created in 1888. Women from all over the world attended this conference; they wanted to work together to get every country to pass a law so that women had the same rights as men and could vote. However, “ICW didn't work out the way Cady Stanton and Anthony hoped. Women in other countries have failed to start or maintain their own
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