B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, Frances Willard, Mary Church Terrell, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Anna Howard Shaw. Stanton served in a largely ceremonial capacity as the NAWSA's first president while Anthony was its leading force in practice. The suffrage movement distanced itself from labor groups and kept its focus on the more affluent levels of society. The first three volumes of the six-volume History of Woman Suffrage were written by the leaders of the NWSA prior to the merger. It included a 107-page chapter on the history of the AWSA, the NWSA's bitter rival, but provided much more information about the NWSA itself that was written from its own point of view. This unbalanced portrayal of the movement influenced scholarly research in this field for many years. Not until about the middle of the 20th century did the AWSA begin to receive adequate scholarly attention. See also List of suffragists and suffragettes List of women's rights activists Timeline of women's suffrage Timeline of women's colleges in the United States Women's suffrage in the United States Women's suffrage organizations Notes Bibliography Library of Congress, One Hundred Years toward Suffrage: An Overview. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds. History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 2 (1881). Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds. History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 3 (1886). Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper, eds. History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4 (1902). Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler. Woman Suffrage And Politics: The Inner Story Of The Suffrage Movement (1926). Alice Sheppard, Cartooning for Suffrage (University of New Mexico Press, 1994). Eleanor Flexner, Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States, Enlarged Edition (1959; Harvard University Press, 1996). External links Historical material on the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA), consisting mostly of records of its annual meetings, from the History of Woman Suffrage, Volume 2, Chapter XXVI, pages 756–862. The constitution of the AWSA from the Library of Congress First-wave feminism Liberal feminist organizations Organizations established in 1869 Feminist organizations in the United States Women's suffrage advocacy groups in the United States History of women's rights in the United States 1869 establishments in the United States William Lloyd Garrison