Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony was an early pioneer for women's rights. She is often associated with her push for women's suffrage - an effort that led to the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote in 1920. http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h926.html For most of her life, she traveled the country giving speeches and canvassing support for this cause. Along the way, she was aided by such figures as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with whom she founded the National Women's Suffrage Association in 1869; Matilda Joslyn Gage, who along with Stanton and Anthony co-wrote The History of Women's Suffrage; and Theodore Roosevelt, who met with her to discuss the future amendment in 1905. http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/timeline.php#top

During the Civil War, Anthony devoted much attention to the abolitionist cause. Together, she and Stanton founded "The Women's Loyal National League" which petitioned for freedom drives for slaves and garnered hundreds of thousands of signatures. http://www.winningthevote.org/sbanthony.html She also worked in the temperance, labor, and education movements. http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/her-story/biography.php

Susan Brownell Anthony was the second of seven children of Daniel and Lucy Read Anthony. After moving to New York in childhood, she attended a home school founded by her father alongside her siblings and some neighborhood children. To further her education, she was enrolled in a seminary. However, this was cut short during the state's financial panic in 1837. The family was forced to sell their possessions at auction. http://www.winningthevote.org/sbanthony.html

As family debts mounted, she left home to teach and eventually found a position at the Canajoharie Academy for a yearly salary of $110.00. http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/timeline.php#sba She quickly distinguished herself, though, by 1849, had grown tired of teaching and moved to her father's farm to look after the property. It was here where she took up women's rights. http://www.winningthevote.org/sbanthony.html

• Co-founder of the National Women's Suffrage Foundation in 1869 with Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
• First person arrested, put on trial, and fined for voting in an election. She refused to pay the fine.
• Wrote the Susan B. Anthony Amendment in 1878 that lead to the 19th Amendment becoming law in 1920.
• Presided over the International Woman Suffrage Council (1904) http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/her-story/biography.phpand founded the International Council of Women (1888) which established a presence worldwide. http://www.winningthevote.org/sbanthony.html
• Co-author of The History of Women's Suffrage along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage. http://www.history.rochester.edu/class/sba/third.html
• Helped found the Woman's State Temperance Society of New York.
• Has inspired many through her activism.

Susan B. Anthony died on March 13th, 1906 at her home in Rochester, New York. After over forty years of private ownership, a historic marker was placed in front of the home in 1948. Today there is a museum, a tour, and space available for educational events on the grounds. http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/timeline.php#sba

"Failure is impossible."

"Independence is happiness."

"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."

"I beg you to speak of Woman as you do the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lie the destiny of this Nation."

"Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations... can never effect a reform."

"Suffrage is the pivotal right."

"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain." http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/susan_b_anthony_2.html