The Equal Rights Party was the name for several different nineteenth-century

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. The first party was the

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, during the 1830s and 1840s. The Anti-Rent party during the Anti-Rent War was also known by this name during the 1840s and 1850s. Another party by this name ran Victoria Woodhull for

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and

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for

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in the 1872 presidential election. It was also known as the People's Party, the Cosmo-Political Party and the National Radical Reformers. A fourth was the

National Equal Rights Party The National Equal Rights Party was a United States minor party during the late 19th century that supported women's rights. The presidential candidates from this party were Victoria Woodhull in 1872 and Belva Ann Lockwood in 1884 and 1888 In G ...

that ran

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for President in the 1884 and 1888 presidential elections and

Marietta Stow Marietta L. B. Stow (1830 or 1837Sherilyn Cox Bennion: ''Equal To The Occasion: Women Editors On The Nineteenth-Century West.'' University of Nevada Press, 1990, , p. 98 ().–1902) was an American politician and women's rights activist. Throughout ...

and Alfred H. Love (and replacing him,

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) for vice president respectively.

Emma Beckwith Emma Beckwith (December 4, 1849 – November 25, 1919) was an American suffragette, bookkeeper, optician, and inventor. Beckwith held various jobs. She was the first woman in business in the Maiden Lane (Manhattan), Maiden Lane, Manhattan neighb ...

ran for mayor of Brooklyn under this same party. In 2021, a fifth ''Equal Rights Party'' was formed.

References

* Fitzwilliam Byrdsall,
The History of the Loco-Foco or Equal Rights Party
' (1842, reprinted 1967). * Reeve Huston, ''Land and Freedom : Rural Society, Popular Protest, and Party Politics in Antebellum New York'' (2002) * Dale L. Walker, ''Mary Edwards Walker : Above and Beyond'' (2005)

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