Abbreviation | WSP |
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Successor | League of Women Voters, New York chapter |
Formation | 1909 |
Founder | Carrie Chapman Catt |
Dissolved | 1919 |
Purpose | Women's suffrage in New York and the US |
The Woman Suffrage Party (WSP) was a New York city political organization dedicated to women's suffrage. It was founded in New York by Carrie Chapman Catt at the Convention of Disfranchised Women in 1909.[1] WSP called itself "a political union of existing equal suffrage organizations in the City of New York."[2] WSP was many New York women's first experience with politics and "contributed directly to the passage of a woman suffrage amendment in New York state."[3]