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Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17.
May 10, 2024 · Susan B. Anthony, American activist who was a pioneer crusader for the women’s suffrage movement in the U.S. and was president (1892–1900) of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Her work helped pave the way for the Nineteenth Amendment (1920) to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote.
Champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work, Susan Brownell Anthony became one of the most visible leaders of the women’s suffrage movement. Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she traveled around the country delivering speeches in favor of women's suffrage.
Mar 9, 2010 · Susan B. Anthony was a pioneer in the women’s suffrage movement in the United States and president of the National Woman Suffrage Association, which she founded with Elizabeth Cady...
Her Life. 1820 – Susan Brownell Anthony is born on February 15 in Adams, Massachusetts, the second of seven children. 1826 – The Anthony family moves to Battenville, New York. 1838 – Daniel Anthony takes daughters Susan and Guelma out of school.
Susan B. Anthony, (born Feb. 15, 1820, Adams, Mass., U.S.—died March 13, 1906, Rochester, N.Y.), U.S. pioneer in the women’s suffrage movement. A precocious child, she learned to read and write at the age of three.
Susan B. Anthony is perhaps the most widely known suffragist of her generation and has become an icon of the woman’s suffrage movement. Anthony traveled the country to give speeches, circulate petitions, and organize local women’s rights organizations. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts. [1] .
Susan B. Anthony. Title Abolitionist, Suffragist. War & Affiliation Civil War / Union. Date of Birth - Death February 15, 1820-March 13, 1906. “To forever blot out slavery is the only possible compensation for this merciless war,” wrote Susan B. Anthony in 1861.
The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House in Rochester, New York, features the National Historic Landmark home of the legendary civil rights leader, and the site of her famous arrest for voting in 1872. This home was the headquarters of the National American Woman Suffrage Association when she was its president.
Susan B. Anthony was a prominent American suffragist and civil rights activist. She campaigned against slavery and for women to be given the vote. She was the co-founder of the Women’s Temperance movement which campaigned to tighten up laws on alcohol.
