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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.
The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Against an aristocracy of sex, 1866 to 1873. Vol. 2 of 6. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-2318-4. Gordon, Ann D., ed. (2003). The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: National protection for national citizens, 1873 to 1880 ...
Anthony was the key force in the new organization. [115] Stone, nominally the chair of its executive committee, in practice was involved only peripherally. [116] Women's suffrage, a key goal of the AERA, was achieved in 1920 with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, popularly known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. [117]
Susan B. Anthony’s home in Rochester, N.Y., is now an early voting location, honoring the women's rights activist who played a significant role in progressing the suffrage movement.
The gravestones of Susan B. Anthony and her sister Mary in Mt. Hope Cemetery are covered in plexiglass to protect them. Each presidential election, scores of people visit the site to add their I ...
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) is known primarily for her leadership in the women's suffrage movement, a cause to which she devoted most of her life. The Nineteenth Amendment, which guarantees the right of women to vote, has been called the Susan B. Anthony Amendment because of her efforts to achieve its passage. [2]
Once my wife, Suzanne, picked up a book, "Susan B. Anthony: Biography of a Singular Feminist," I ordered from a bookstore. When the sales clerk learned who it was for, her jaw dropped. “This ...
Susan B. Anthony and Carrie Chapman Catt traveled through the South en route to the NAWSA convention in Atlanta. Anthony asked her old friend Frederick Douglass, a former slave, not to attend the NAWSA convention in Atlanta in 1895, the first to be held in a southern city. Black NAWSA members were excluded from 1903 convention in the southern ...