By Julia Flynn, Evanston Women's History Project, Research Volunteer In the late 1860's, the Civil War had ended and the Reconstruction Era was well under way, attempting to redress the inequalities arising from the legacy of slavery.  The Fourteenth Amendment passed in 1868 recognizing all US-born and naturalized individuals, including slaves emancipated after the Civil … Continue reading Naomi Talbert Anderson and the 1869 Suffrage Convention in Chicago