Susan B. Anthony Biography

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NAME: Susan Brownell Anthony
OCCUPATION: Women's Rights Activist, Editor, Publisher, Journalist
BIRTH DATE: February 15, 1820
DEATH DATE: March 13, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH: Adams, Massachusetts

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Susan B. Anthony was a prominent American civil rights activist and leader during the women's suffrage movement of the 1800s.

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Susan B. Anthony was a prominent civil rights leader during the women's suffrage movement of the 1800s. She become involved in the anti-slavery movement, but it was in doing that work that she encountered gender inequality. With Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she began her work for women's right to vote. Anthony established a weekly paper called Revolution,co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA),

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Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

– Susan B. Anthony

and gave many lectures in the U.S. and Europe.

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Born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, Anthony grew up in a politically active family. They worked to end slavery in what was called the abolitionist movement. They were also part of the temperance movement, which wanted the production and sale of alcohol limited or stopped completely. Anthony was inspired to fight for women's rights while campaigning against alcohol. She denied a chance to speak at a temperance convention because she was a woman. Anthony later realized that no one would take women in politics seriously unless they had the right to vote.

Along with activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. Around this time, the two created and produced The Revolution, a weekly publication that lobbied for women's rights. Later the pair edited three volumes of History of Woman Suffrage together.

Anthony was tireless in her efforts, giving speeches around the country to convince others to support a woman's right to vote. She even took matters into her own hands in 1872 when she voted in the presidential election illegally. Anthony was arrested and tried unsuccessfully to fight the charges. She ended up being fined $100 - a fine she never paid.

When Anthony died on March 13, 1906, women still did not have the right to vote. It wasn't until 1920, 14 years after her death, that the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving all adult women the right to vote, was passed. In recognition of her dedication and hard work, the U.S. Treasury Department put Anthony's portrait on one dollar coins in 1979, making her the first woman to be so honored.