Susan B. Anthony was a women's rights leader in the late 1800's. She helped lead the way to voting rights for women.
Susan Brownell Anthony was born in 1820 to Quaker parents. She grew up in New York State. Unlike most girls at that time, she got a very good education.
She became active in the Abolitionist movement, taking a very strong stand against slavery.
Anthony soon devoted all of her time to the rights of women. It bothered her a lot that women could not vote and that women earned only a fraction of what a man would earn doing the same job.
Susan B. Anthony became very involved in trying to get the government to change its laws. She often spoke at meetings to spread the equality message. With the help of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she ran a newspaper called The Revolution. In 1869 the two of them started the National Women's Suffrage (right to vote) Association to further the cause.
Even though it was illegal, Susan B. Anthony voted in the 1872 presidential election. She was arrested and fined $100 - a lot of money at that time.
Susan B. Anthony spent the rest of her life working to get women the right to vote. Unfortunately she didn't live to see that day. Anthony died in 1906, 14 years before the Constitution was changed, in 1920, to say that everyone had the right to vote, regardless of gender.
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