Susan B. Anthony

15 February 1820 – 13 March 1906

Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a central role in the women's suffrage movement. With her lifelong collaborator Elizabeth Cady Stanton she founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, and her 1872 arrest for voting made her a national symbol of the cause. The Nineteenth Amendment, ratified in 1920, is popularly known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.

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Born in Adams, Massachusetts
15 February 1820

Susan Brownell Anthony was born into a Quaker family committed to social equality in Adams, Massachusetts.

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Family moved to Rochester, New York
1845

The Anthony family settled on a farm near Rochester, which became a meeting place for abolitionists including Frederick Douglass.

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Worked as a teacher and headmistress at Canajoharie Academy
1846 – 1849

Anthony taught for about a decade, ending as head of the female department at Canajoharie Academy, where she first campaigned for equal pay for women teachers.

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Met Elizabeth Cady Stanton
May 1851

Anthony was introduced to Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Seneca Falls, beginning a legendary fifty-year partnership in the women's rights movement.

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Co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association
May 1869

Anthony and Stanton founded the NWSA to campaign for a federal constitutional amendment granting women the vote.

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Voted illegally in the presidential election
5 November 1872

Anthony cast a ballot in Rochester in the 1872 presidential election, arguing the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed her the right to vote, and was arrested two weeks later.

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Convicted in United States v. Susan B. Anthony
18 June 1873

At her widely publicized trial in Canandaigua, New York, Anthony was fined 100 dollars, which she refused to pay.

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Began publishing the History of Woman Suffrage
1881

With Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage, Anthony compiled the first volumes of a monumental documentary history of the suffrage movement.

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Served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association
1892 – 1900

Anthony led the merged NAWSA, the country's largest suffrage organization, until her retirement at age 80.

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Died in Rochester, New York
13 March 1906

Anthony died of heart failure and pneumonia at her Rochester home, a month after her 'Failure is impossible' speech in Washington.

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