Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Stanton, seated, and Anthony, shown in their later years, were lifelong friends and veteran reformers who advocated, among other things, improved working conditions for labor, married women’s property rights, liberalization of divorce laws, and women’s admission into colleges and trade schools. Their broad agenda led some conservatives to oppose women’s political rights because they equated the suffragist cause with radicalism in general.
Library of Congress, 3a02558.