When the universal suffrage movement split, one set of reformers—led by Lucy Stone, her husband Henry Browne Blackwell, and Frederick Douglass—formed the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). The AWSA prioritized African-American rights by supporting the 15th Amendment. They focused on ongoing threats from white Southerners, the historical wrongs against black people, and the power of the vote to protect them from further abuses. They pursued women’s suffrage through state campaigns.