Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Updated: 28 Jan 2020
Timeline of some events in Anthony and Stanton's work during the suffrage movement
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Created byLaurel Taylor
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Anthony and Stanton Meet*Anthony and Stanton break with Lucy Stone*
Stone for universal male suffrage (15th
amendment), Anthony and Stanton for women's
suffrage (argued that black male suffrage was
already guaranteed under 13th amendment)Stanton and Anthony found National Woman
Suffrage AssociationStone founds American Woman Suffrage
AssociationIdeological gap between Stanton and other
women's rights leaders continues to grow--
Stanton increasingly critical of ChristianityNational Woman's Suffrage Association and
American Woman Suffrage Association merge
into National American Woman Suffrage
Association--Stanton becomes president, largely
due to Anthony's influenceAnthony hands out a Declaration of Rights for
Women at the US Centennial celebrations in
PhiladelphiaAnthony and Stanton begin writing a history of
the women's movement--Anthony hates writingStanton publishes The Woman's Bible--NAWSA
disavows Stanton, and while Anthony disagrees,
she does not publicly stand in Stanton's defenseStanton diesAnthony diesStanton cautions Anthony not to be so politic, not
to get caught up in the detailsAnthony implores Stanton not to speak in public
support for Frederick Douglass' marriage to a
white womanPeriods
Together form Women's State Temperance
SocietyInitially, Anthony focused only on suffrage,
Stanton calling for a broader interpretation and
litigation of women's rightsStanton and Anthony together nearly every single
day working on history--At the same time, beliefs
diverging. Anthony becoming more conservative
and throwing in with Temperance. Stanton
becoming more radical.
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