The AWSA campaigned widely for municipal and presidential suffrage, especially during the 1880s and 1890s. After the merger of the American and National wings in 1890, Blackwell was made chair of the united association's Committee on Presidential Suffrage. Before the woman suffrage amendment to the federal Constitution passed in 1920, eleven states had established presidential suffrage, and four of those had granted municipal suffrage at the same time. Another strategy Blackwell devised was aimed at constitutional conventions. In 1889 when the territories of North Dakota, Montana, and Washington began drafting state constitutions for entry into the Union, the AWSA mobilized to press for inclusion of woman suffrage. But Blackwell realized the chances for success were slim and devised a backup plan – persuading pro-suffrage delegates, if and when it became apparent a suffrage provision would fail, to push for a clause that would enable a future state legislature to extend suffrage to women by statute. Blackwell obtained endorsements for the strategy from leading politicians and judges in other states, traveled to the constitutional conventions, lobbied their leaders, got his resolution introduced, and was given a hearing at each one. Though the effort failed, North Dakota and Montana came very close to adopting it. Death Blackwell died of inflammation of the bowels in 1909. Legacy Alice Stone Blackwell, the daughter of Blackwell and Lucy Stone, helped her parents in editing the Woman's Journal; she became another leader for women's rights as well as for the Temperance movement and Prohibition. Writings "Equal Suffrage vs. Prostitution" "The Lesson of Colorado" (1877) "Objections to Woman Suffrage Answered" See also List of suffragists and suffragettes List of women's rights activists Timeline of women's suffrage Notes References Bibliography Blackwell, Alice Stone. Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Woman's Rights. 1930. Reprint, University Press of Virginia, 2001. Blackwell, Alice Stone. "What I Owe to My Father." Holt, 1931, pp. 35–48. Reprint, with an introduction by Peter C. Engleman, Alice Stone Blackwell Trust: 1999. Hays, Elinor Rice. Morning Star: A Biography of Lucy Stone 1818–1893. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961. , Hays, Elinor Rice. [https://www.amazon.com/Those-Extraordinary-Blackwells-Journey-Better/dp/B001EVC4CG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1374254436&sr=1-1&keywords=Those+Extraordinary+Blackwells%3B+Story+Journey Those Extraordinary Blackwells: The Story of a Journey to a Better World."] Harcourt, 1967. ASIN BOO1EVC4CG Kerr, Andrea Moore. Lucy Stone: Speaking Out for Equality. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1992. Million, Joelle. Woman's Voice, Woman's Place: Lucy Stone and the Birth of the Women's Rights Movement. Praeger, 2003. Wheeler, Leslie. Loving Warriors: Selected Letters