Susan B. Anthony 1820−1906
Born Adams, Massachusetts
Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815−1902
Born Johnstown, New York
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were two of
America’s most important leaders in the initial quest for
women’s rights in the nineteenth century. Both women had
been active in other aspects of antebellum reform (including
the antislavery and temperance movements) before meeting in
1851. The meeting confirmed their own views that the
“maleness” of the nation’s laws needed to be challenged and
intensified their determination to build a mass movement for
women’s rights. Although they did not live to see the passage
of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the vote,
Stanton and Anthony built the foundation for women’s
suffrage in the twentieth century.
Napoleon Sarony (1821−1896)
Albumen silver print, c. 1870
S/NPG.77.48