-
Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820.
-
-
In 1837, Anthony went to Deborah Moulson's Female Seminary, a Quakers boarding school in Philadelphia.
-
In 1839, her family moved to Hradscrabble, New York, in the wake of the pain and economic depression that followed.
-
She later taught at the Canajoharie Academy in 1846.
-
In 1849, at age 29, Anthony quit teaching and moved back to her family in Rochester, New York.
-
In the late 1850, Anthony read a detailed account in the New York Tribune of the first National Women Rights Convention on Worcester, Massachusetts.
-
In 1856, Anthony soom attempted to unify the African-American and woman's rights movements which was recruited by abolistionist Abby Keller Foster.
-
On May 12, 1859, Anthony spoke at the Ninth National Women's Convention and she asked saying, "Where, under our Declaration of Independence, does the Saxon man get his power to deprive all women and Negroes of their inalienable rights?"
-
On January 8, 1868, Anthony published the first woman's rights weekly journal The Revolution, and it's motto was: "The true repluic-men, their rights and nothing more; women, thier rights and nothing less."
-
Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were delegates at the 1868 convention of the National Labor Union.
-
In 1869, Anthony and Stanton founded NWSA, an organization dedicated to woman's suffrages.
-
In 1869, Susan and her long-time friend, Frederick Douglass, foun themselves for the first time on opposing sides on a suffrage debate.
-
On November 18, 1872, Anthony got arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal for voting in the 1872 Presidental Election two weeks earlier.
-
After her trial, Anthony petitioned the U.S. Congress to remove the fine in January 1874.
-
By the 1880's, Anthony becomes agnotic.
-
Later, Anthony toured all around Europe in 1883 and visited many charitable organizations.
-
In February 1890, Anthony and Lucy Stone both merged their associations to make the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
-
Anthony served as VP for a long time until 1892 when she became president.
-
In 1893, Anthony and Helen Barrett Montgomery both formed a chapter of the Woman's Educational and Industrial Union (WEIU).
-
In 1898, she also worked with Montgomery to raise funds to open opportunities for women to study at the University of Rochester.
-
On March 13, 1906, Susan B. Anthony died of heart disease and pnemonia after retiring in 1900.
-
On August 26, 1920, women were given the right to vote by the ninteenth amendement to the constitution.
