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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 is known for her leadership in the long campaign for women's right to vote in the United States and also abroad. She indicated her interest as early as 1852, when she attended the National Women's Rights Convention in Syracuse, New York. She was also a vigorous opponent of slavery.
Susan B. Anthony image and quoted text, used by Feminists for Life to portray her as anti-abortion. The quote deals with child custody in estate law rather than abortion. [1] Susan B. Anthony was a leader of the American women's suffrage movement whose position on abortion has been the subject of a modern-day
Susan B. Anthony might have remained an important but little-remembered figure in American history if not for the decision to put her image on a $1 coin beginning in the late 1970s. Today, certain...
Front page of The Revolution, January 15, 1868. The creators of The Revolution, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, were leading women's rights activists.Stanton was an organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, the first women's rights convention, and the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments. [2]
History of Woman Suffrage is a book that was produced by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Ida Husted Harper.Published in six volumes from 1881 to 1922, it is a history of the women's suffrage movement, primarily in the United States.
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 ...
In 1851, Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed a decades-long partnership that became important to the women's rights movement and to the future National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). For the next several years, they worked together for the abolition of slavery and for women's rights.