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Birth
Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts. -
Moving Up!
While Susan was little, she moved to Battenville, New York with her family where she was sent to study at a Quaker school near Philadelphia. -
Meeting New Friends
In 1851 Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and over the next year the two women discovered the sort of liberating partnership they could forge. Their ideas were converging. Anthony had found women welcome in the temperance movement as long as they confined themselves to a separate sphere and did not expect an equal role with men, while Stanton had focused her attention on the need for women to reform law in their own interests, both to improve their conditions and to challenge the "maleness" of -
NY State Temperance Society
Anthony and Stanton founded the Women's New York State Temperance Society, which, even in its name, claimed an equality with the leading male society and featured women's right to vote on the temperance question and to divorce drunken husbands. Beginning as an agent for this society, Anthony became a full-time reformer. -
Anti-Slavery Agent
Anthony began working as an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society and spent years promoting the society's cause up until the Civil War -
The War Begins
By this time, the Civil War has started and everything had to be put on hold -
American Equal Rights Association
She helped establish the American Equal Rights Association with Stanton, calling for the same rights to be granted to all regardless of race or sex. -
The Revolution
Anthony and Stanton created and produced The Revolution, a weekly publication that lobbied for women's rights. The newspaper's motto was "Men their rights, and nothing more; women their rights, and nothing less." -
Helping Others
In 1869, Anthony and Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony was tireless in her efforts, giving speeches around the country to convince others to support a woman's right to vote. -
Desperate Times Calls for Desperate Measures
Anthony was arrested for voting illegally, and she unsuccessfully fought the charges; she was fined $100, which she never paid. -
Woman wants bread, not the ballot
Susan gives her famous speech at the Union Hall. Everybody was encouraged to hear her speech. -
International Council of Women
Founded this organization and worked with other women to show the importance of women's rights -
Important Meeting
She met with President Theodore Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., to lobby for an amendment to give women the right to vote, still hoping for a change. -
Death
Anthony died on March 13, 1906, at the age of 86, at her home in Rochester, New York. Shortly before dieing, Anthony told her friend Anna Shaw, "To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel." -
Good Job Susan!
In recognition of her dedication and hard work, the U.S. Treasury Department put Anthony's portrait on dollar coins which made her the first woman to be honored on a U.S. coin.
