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By Jone Johnson Lewis, About.com Guide to Women's History since 1999

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Sunday March 6, 2005
A key figure in the American woman suffrage movement was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Not known as well as her friend and political partner, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton is usually credited as being the theoretically and intellectually oriented member of the pair, while Anthony was good at strategy and had better speaking skills. Stanton was also married and many-times-over a mother, while Anthony was single, allowing Anthony more freedom to travel and speak on the lecture circuit. Here's more about Stanton and Anthony:

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