- Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902). For more than 50 years (1851-1902), these two leading analysts and activists for women's rights were close friends and co-workers. They emerged from different backgrounds and brought different but complementary skills and talents to their work. Anthony was a great organizer and speaker. Stanton specialized in analysis and writing. Anthony was a spinster who was free to travel and indifferent to hardships. The vote was her central concern, on the theory that all other advances would follow on its heels. Stanton was a homebody who liked to take her time and be comfortable, as much as a household of 7 children would allow. She considered the vote as only one necessity for women's advancement. She authored a rewrite of the Bible - outrageous for its day - refocusing the scriptures in the feminist perspective. In 1869 the two women founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, the first of the major groups whose work would culminate in votes for women in 1920.
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