Susan B. Anthony
 | Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American women’s rights activist and perhaps the best known leader of the women’s suffrage. She was born into a Quaker family active in social justice advocacy and believed men and women should be equally educated and self-supporting. When her schooling was interrupted by financial crisis in the Panic of 1837, she taught at a Quaker boarding school and became headmistress at Canajoharie Academy in 1846, leaving to run the family farm in 1849. She met Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851 who would be her partner in social reform activities for much of her life, beginning with establishment of the New York Women’s State Temperance Society in 1852. Their talents were complementary: Stanton was the theorist and Anthony the organizer. They founded the National Loyal Women’s League in 1863, which conducted the largest petition drive in U.S. history, collected nearly 400,000 signatures in favor of abolition of slavery. They initiated the American Equal Rights Association in 1866, started a women’s rights newspaper in 1868, and founded the American Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony traveled and spoke constantly, delivering as many as 100 speeches per year and often donating the fees to the support of the movement. She never married, which enabled her to borrow money and enter into contracts on behalf of the organizations, which were prohibited for married women. Often ridiculed and castigated at the beginning of her activism, pubic opinion changed greatly during her life; President McKinley invited her to celebrate her 80th birthday at the White House. |
The Trial of Susan B. Anthony
The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which articulated the rights of citizens..
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