Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
Suffragist and women’s Rights Advocate
Susan Brownell Anthony fought for women’s rights

She was born on February 15,1820, in West Grove , near Adams Massachusetts.
She was the second of eight children. She was a precocious child, having learned to read and write at age three.
When she was seven years old, her family moved to New York. At that time economic depression.
Susan B. Anthony began teaching school when she was 15 years old. She taught school until she was 30 years old. She became headmistress of the Female Department.
She quit teaching and moved to the family farm in Rochester, New York. She began to take park in convention, and gathering related to the temperance.
She was a Quaker and was against people drinking alcohol.
Anthony was also against American Anti-Slavery Women’s Loyal League during the American.

When she was 31 years old she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902). Together they worked to change New York State laws that discriminated against women.
Anthony and Stanton believed that women should have the right to vote.

In 1869 they started the National woman Suffrage Association. The goal of this association was to help pass a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.
Susan B. Anthony was arrested in 1872 because she voted in a presidential election. She refused to pay the $100 fine.

Susan B. Anthony died on March13, 1906, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton on October 26, 1902. There were both 86 when they died.
The 19th Amendment was finally passed on August 18,1920.