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Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17.
[437] [438] Susan B. Anthony, one of the writers of the "Hawaiian Appeal" was partially motivated to ensure that women get to vote before Native Hawaiian men were able to vote. [439] In the end, suffrage was granted to men who could read and write in either English or Hawaiian and the territorial legislature was prevented from legislating on ...
Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, by Howard Chandler Christy, 1940 Elizabeth Cady Stanton, c. 1880 Douglass stood up to speak in favour of women's right to vote. Susan B. Anthony, 1870 Victoria Woodhull portrait by Mathew Brady, c. 1870 Senator Aaron Sargent introduced the first federal amendment to grant women the ...
Susan B. Anthony’s home in Rochester, N.Y., is now an early voting location, honoring the women's rights activist who played a significant role in progressing the suffrage movement.
Susan B. Anthony is known for her leadership in the long campaign for women's right to vote in the United States and also abroad. She indicated her interest as early as 1852, when she attended the National Women's Rights Convention in Syracuse, New York. She was also a vigorous opponent of slavery.
The AWSA generally focused on a long-term effort of state campaigns to achieve women's suffrage on a state-by-state basis. [14] During the Reconstruction era, women's rights leaders advocated for inclusion of universal suffrage as a civil right in the Reconstruction Amendments (the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments).
As a trailblazer for women's rights during the 1800's, Susan B. Anthony is credited for fiercely advocating for women's right to vote throughout her 50 years of political ...
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) – co-founder and leader National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), one of the leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed the right of women to vote, was popularly known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. [15]