Who Was Susan B. Anthony?

She was a hero in the women's suffrage movement in the United States during the 1800s.  

Her background was fairly different from most other women born in the USA in 1826.  Her father was a New England-based Quaker, a stern and yet progressive middle-class cotton manufacturer, who paid for a private teacher for his daughters after Susan was denied maths tuition in the local state school.  Susan herself became a teacher when she was only 13, to help pay off family debts.

Antony's first social reform campaign was about temperance: limiting alcohol consumption.  This was very much a feminist issue at the time, in that women and children were the ones usually suffering at the hands of alcoholic husbands.  She moved onto the causes against slavery, of equal pay for women, and ultimately the women's vote.  She repeatedly led women to attempt to vote in New York state elections during the 1870s (they were jailed for these efforts).

Anthony spent her last decades lecturing and continuing to campaign for the vote. She never married, and died in 1906, 14 years before American women finally got to vote in national elections.

Susan B. Anthony was a famous woman who strongly believed in and fought for women's rights in the United States. She was born on February 17, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts and passed away on March 13, 1906 after suffering several complications caused by a massive stroke.

She is best known as the woman on the one dollar coin that started circulating in the United States in 1979 and the very last Susan B. Anthony dollar was minted in 1999.

She spent the majority of her life fighting for women's rights and slave's rights. In 1866, she founded the American Eagle Rights Association with Elizabeth Stanton. She never lived to see American women have the right to vote. The 19th Amendment was passed which gave women the right to vote in 1920, twenty years after Susan B. Anthony died. However, her efforts never went unnoticed. She played a vital role in women rights.