Anthonys pursuit of alliances with moderate suffragists created long-lasting tension between herself and more radical suffragists like Stanton. Stanton openly criticized Anthonys stance, writing that Anthony and AWSA leader Lucy Stone see suffrage only. They do not see womans religious and social bondage. Anthony responded to Stanton: We number over ten thousand women and each one has opinions ... and we can only hold them together to work for the ballot by letting alone their whims and prejudices on other subjects!
The creation of the NAWSA effectively marginalized the more radical elements within the womens movement, including Stanton. Anthony pushed for Stanton to be voted in as the first NAWSA president, and stood by her as Stanton was belittled by the large factions of less-radical members within the new organization.
In collaboration with Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Ida Husted Harper, Anthony published The History of Woman Suffrage . Anthony also befriended Josephine Brawley Hughes, an advocate of womens rights and Prohibition in Arizona, and Carrie Chapman Catt, whom Anthony endorsed for the presidency of the NAWSA when Anthony formally retired in 1900.
Later personal life
Cover of the February 20, 1913, issue of Life, subtitled Ancient History, showing an Anthony-like figure in classical dress leading a protest for womens rightsBefore retiring, Anthony was asked if all women in the United States would ever be given the right to vote. She replied by stating, it will come, but I shall not see it...It is inevitable. We can no more deny forever the right of self-government to one-half our people than we could keep the Negro forever in bondage. It will not be wrought by the same disrupting forces that freed the slave, but come it will, and I believe within a generation. Failure is impossible were the words she left with her girls to encourage them on in the long discouraging struggle ahead. Fourteen years after Anthonys death, following assiduous campaigning, women were given the right to vote on August 26, 1920, by the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
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