- Susan B. Anthony
- February 15, 1820 - March 13, 1906
- born Adams, Massachusetts
Quaker, teacher, temperance and abolition organizer, outstanding women's
rights leader with sharp political instincts, met Elizabeth Cady Stanton
in 1850, took sufferage petitions door-to-door 1854, worked for emancipation
but felt black men should not be given the vote ahead of women, published
The Revolution 1868-70, lectured for 6 years to pay of its $10,000
debt, advocated equal pay for equal work, encouraged more women to form
unions, "more than any other suffrage leader, she was the victim of
masculine ridicule" including satirical cartoons and newspaper attacks,
driving force behind National Woman Suffrage Association 1869-90,
National American Woman Suffrage Association head 1892-1900, single-minded
champion of federal amendment, called "The Invincible" and "The Napoleon
of the woman's rights movement," active in state campaigns from Kansas
1867 to California 1896, spoke across country for 30 years, voted in 1872
election, arrested and convicted but won popular support, led Centennial
protest 1876, recruited Carrie Catt and Anna Shaw to suffrage, lived with
sister Mary in Rochester, New York, became internationally respected symbol
of woman's movement, "She has a broad and generous nature, and a depth of
tenderness that few women possess" said Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Biographical information excerpted from Women Win the Vote
distributed by The National Women's History Project, 7738 Bell Road,
Windsor, California, 95492-8518. Graphic and text posted by permission NWHP, 1994.
(Note: The NWHP has moved and this address is no longer correct)
Susan B. Anthony