Susan B. Anthony

By carlene.bautista

  • Birth

    Susan B. Anthony is born in Massachusetts and is the second of seven children.

  • Moving

    The Anthony Family moves to Rochester, New York, on the Erie Canal. Their farm is located on what is now Brooks Avenue and becomes a meeting-place for anti-slavery activists, including Frederick Douglass.

  • Teaching

    Susan B. Anthony starts teaching at Canajoharie Academy for a yearly salary of $110.

  • Women's Rights

    Anthony circulates petitions for married women's property rights and woman suffrage. She begins her New York State campaign for woman suffrage in Mayville, Chautauqua County, speaking and traveling alone.

  • Abolitionist

    Anthony conducts anti-slavery campaign from Buffalo to Albany- "No Union with Slaveholders. No Compromise."

  • Women's Suffrage

    Anthony calls for the first Woman Suffrage Convention in Washington D.C.

  • Arrested

    Anthony is arrested for voting in the front parlor of 7 Madison Street (now 17 Madison) on November 18 and is indicted in Albany. She continues to lecture and attend conventions.

  • Keynote Address

    Anthony delivers the keynote address to the New York State Nurses Convention, advocating for the standardization of training and state registration of nurses. The Nurses Practice Act is passed in 1903.

  • Meeting with President Theodore Roosevelt

    Anthony meets with President Theodore Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., about submitting a suffrage amendment to Congress.

  • Speech and Passing

    Anthony attends suffrage hearings in Washington, D.C., She gives her "Failure is Impossible" speech at her 86th birthday celebration. Anthony dies at her Madison Street home on March 13, 14 years before the 19th Amendment grants the right for US women over 21 to vote.