Biography on susan b. anthony
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Susan B. Anthony
1820–1906
Who Was Susan B. Anthony?
Susan B. Anthony was an American writer, lecturer, and abolitionist who was a leading figure in the women’s voting rights movement. Raised in a Quaker household, Anthony went on to work as a teacher. She later partnered with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and would eventually lead the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The work of Anthony and other suffragists eventually lead to the passage of the 19th Amendment, granting all women the right to vote, in 1920, which 14 years after her death.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Susan Brownell Anthony
BORN: February 15, 1820
DIED: March 13, 1906
BIRTHPLACE: Adams, Massachusetts
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Aquarius
Early Life
Susan Brownell Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. She was the second oldest of eight children to a local cotton mill owner Daniel Anthony and his wife, Lucy Read Anthony. Only five of Anthony’s siblings lived to be adults. One child was sti
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Susan B. Anthony
“To forever blot out slavery is the only possible compensation for this merciless war,” wrote Susan B. Anthony in 1861. A dedicated abolitionist and advocate for women’s rights and suffrage, Anthony hoped for a redeeming purpose of the American Civil War, even as she worried that the conflict would slow the interest in conventions or discussions of women’s rights.
Born on February 15, 1820, Susan Anthony grew up in Massachusetts, New York, and Pennsylvania. She added “B” as an första during girlhood when she and her sisters had a “great craze for middle initials.” Anthony’s family were Quakers, and she grew up encouraged to pursue education, advocate for social reform, and support the abolition of slavery. When the Panic of 1837 brought financial difficulties to the Anthony family, she decided to take a teaching position at a Quaker school.
By 1845, Anthony’s family moved near Rochester, New York, and started farming, and their home became a welcome haven for ac
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Susan B. Anthony is perhaps the most widely known suffragist of her generation and has become an icon of the woman’s suffrage movement. Anthony traveled the country to give speeches, circulate petitions, and organize local women’s rights organizations.
Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts.[1] After the Anthony family moved to Rochester, New York in 1845, they became active in the antislavery movement. Antislavery Quakers met at their farm almost every Sunday, where they were sometimes joined by Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. Two of Anthony's brothers, Daniel and Merritt, were later anti-slavery activists in the Kansas territory.
In 1848 Susan B. Anthony was working as a teacher in Canajoharie, New York and became involved with the teacher’s union when she discovered that male teachers had a monthly salary of $10.00, while the female teachers earned $2.50 a month. Her parents and sister Marry attended the 1848 Rochester Woman’s Rights Convention held August 2.