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

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was also known by this name during the 1840s and 1850s. Another party by this name ran

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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 that ran

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for President in the

1884 Events January–March * January 4 – The Fabian Society is founded in London. * January 5 – Gilbert and Sullivan's ''Princess Ida'' premières at the Savoy Theatre, London. * January 18 – Dr. William Price atte ...

and 1888 presidential elections and Marietta Stow and Alfred H. Love (and replacing him, Charles Stuart Wells) for vice president respectively. Emma Beckwith ran for

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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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