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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.
Susan B. Anthony. United States v. Susan B. Anthony was the criminal trial of Susan B. Anthony in a U.S. federal court in 1873. The defendant was a leader of the women's suffrage movement who was arrested for voting in Rochester, New York in the 1872 elections in violation of state laws that allowed only men to vote.
After those arguments were struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, suffrage organizations, with activists like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, called for a new constitutional amendment guaranteeing women the same right to vote possessed by men.
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.
As a trailblazer for women's rights during the 1800's, Susan B. Anthony is credited for fiercely advocating for women's right to vote throughout her 50 years of political ...
Anthony famously had a friendship with suffragette, anti-lynching and early civil rights activist Ida B. Wells, who was documented as having challenged Anthony's exclusion of Black citizens in the ...
In 1872, Susan B. Anthony convinced some election officials to allow her to vote in that year's presidential elections, for which she was arrested and found guilty in a widely publicized trial. The judge at the trial was Justice Ward Hunt , who had recently been appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court and who conducted the trial as part of the ...
Famous suffragist Susan B. Anthony will receive a pardon nearly 150 years after she was arrested for voting in the 1872 presidential election, but her legacy was complicated.