Susan B. Anthony

Record year1881–1902

summaryThe continuous editing of dispersed movement materials into a four-volume historical corpus, extended through the fourth volume to 1883–1900.

M rationaleThe four volumes form one continuous achievement in historical writing and archival preservation. The fourth extends its range but does not create a separate M; choices of works, omissions, and exclusions within the movement limit its value.

attribution rationaleSusan B. Anthony .18; Elizabeth Cady Stanton .17; Matilda Joslyn Gage .17; Ida Husted Harper .08; existing movement documents and correspondence .14; original publication team .09; prehistory of abolitionist and women's movement historiography .09; unresolved share .08. The shares are revisable research judgments.

overlap boundaryCounts editorial work, source preservation, and original publication of the first four volumes from 1881–1902; the first three were jointly edited by Anthony, Stanton, and Gage, and the fourth by Anthony and Ida Husted Harper. M is not duplicated by volume, and the fifth and sixth volumes edited by Harper after Anthony's death are excluded.

Evidence gapsChapter-by-chapter editorial division and source selection are not closed; the fifth and sixth volumes explicitly exclude Anthony.

Record year1869–1906

summaryConnected national organization, a specific legal challenge, and the federal-amendment route into a long-term institutional advocacy effort.

M rationaleSustained national organization, legal challenges, and federal proposals form a major chain of institutional advocacy; final realization of universal suffrage is not counted, and racial exclusion and limited representation are limitations of the same terminal state. Individual roles are separately allocated under a.

attribution rationaleSusan B. Anthony .16; Elizabeth Cady Stanton .14; Aaron A. Sargent .04; NWSA, NAWSA members and state organizers .25; other woman-suffrage and Black women organizers .13; prehistory of abolition, women's rights, and suffrage .16; unresolved share .12. The shares are revisable research judgments.

overlap boundaryCombines the joint founding of the NWSA in 1869, the 1872 voting and trial challenge, the federal-amendment route from 1878, and continuing organization through 1906 as one chain of institutional advocacy; it does not claim passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 or all outcomes of women's suffrage across the United States.

Evidence gapsThe NWSA constitution, meeting records, and documents of Anthony's specific offices have not been read; the 1872 trial record and co-participants have not been checked individually; specific texts on race and the Fifteenth Amendment have not been checked, and remain explicit contested gaps.

Record year1853–1854

summaryTurned rights claims into identifiable actions of speaking tours, petitioning, and legislative lobbying.

M rationaleSpecific advocacy methods and public action formed a bounded institutional service, estimated at M5.3; legal causality and racial/class coverage remain unresolved and limit the scope.

attribution rationaleSusan B. Anthony .24; Elizabeth Cady Stanton .10; New York women's-rights petitioners and local organizers .29; prehistory of abolition and women's property rights .22; unresolved share .15. The shares are revisable research judgments.

overlap boundaryCounts the speeches, petition signatures, and state-legislature lobbying around New York women's property rights in 1853–54; it does not claim passage of all specific laws, nor automatically treat members of household abolitionist networks as co-executors.

Evidence gapsOriginal petitions and speeches have not been read; individual causation of any particular law has not been demonstrated.

Record year1888；1904

summaryConnected representatives and organizations from multiple countries into durable vehicles for international meetings and alliance.

M rationaleThe creation of transnational meetings and an alliance is an institutional delivery distinct from the United States federal-amendment route, estimated at M5.4; details for 1904 rest only on timeline-level evidence, so substantial attribution uncertainty remains.

attribution rationaleSusan B. Anthony .14; Carrie Chapman Catt .10; May Wright Sewall .05; Frances Willard .05; NWSA, ICW, IWSA representatives and organizing team .31; prehistory of international women's organizations .19; unresolved share .16. The shares are revisable research judgments.

overlap boundaryCombines the International Council of Women meeting convened by the NWSA in 1888 with the transnational organizational end state of founding the IWSA with Catt in 1904; it does not claim the organizations' later decades of work or suffrage outcomes in individual countries.

Evidence gapsThe 1904 founding documents and specific division of preparation work have not been read; representativeness and internal organizational exclusions have not been checked meeting by meeting.

Record year1898–1900

summaryMobilized additional resources and guaranteed the shortfall on top of committee fundraising already under way, allowing the admission condition for that year to be met.

M rationaleResource mobilization and a verifiable short-term institutional result form an independent service outcome of local scope, estimated at M4.7.

attribution rationaleSusan B. Anthony .18; Helen Barrett Montgomery .17; women-admission donors and fundraising committee .25; University of Rochester board .15; prehistory of women's access to higher education .15; unresolved share .10. The shares are revisable research judgments.

overlap boundaryCounts the fundraising condition, committee solicitation, Anthony's guarantee of the shortfall, and women's admission that year in the short chain of 1898–1900; it does not claim the university's later women's education or commemorative projects.

Evidence gapsIndependent fundraising ledgers and participants' correspondence are missing; no long-term educational effects are inferred.