New England Woman Suffrage Association is formed in Boston.

Founded in Boston by Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, it supports the “New England position” within the women’s movement, which supports passage of the Fourteenth Amendment and Fifteenth Amendments even without women’s suffrage. Julia Ward Howe is the first president. The organization become the national American Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1869. Led by Stone’s daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, it merges with another group to become the National American Woman’s Suffrage Association in 1890.