Joint Effort With Susan B. Anthony
Beginning in 1886, Shaw served as the chair of the Franchise Department of Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). Her task was "to work for woman suffrage and then to use the ballot to gain 'home protection' and temperance legislation.” However her focus on temperance subsided as she became more heavily involved in the suffrage movement by lecturing for the Massachusetts Suffrage Association and later the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).
In 1888, Shaw attended the first meeting of the International Council of Women as a representative of both the WCTU and AWSA. At the meeting, Shaw met Susan B. Anthony whom immediately encouraged her to join the National Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Having agreed, Shaw played a key role at NAWSA. In 1889, she "helped to persuade the AWSA to merge with Anthony's and Elizabeth Cady Stanton's NWSA, creating for the first time in two decades a semblance of organizational unity within the movement." Beginning in 1904 and for the next eleven years, Shaw was the president of NAWSA. Under her leadership, NAWSA continued to "lobby for a national constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote."
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