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  1. 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.

  2. Champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work, Susan Brownell Anthony became one of the most visible leaders of the womens suffrage movement. Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton , she traveled around the country delivering speeches in favor of women's suffrage.

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  4. Apr 3, 2014 · Susan B. Anthony was an American writer, lecturer, and abolitionist who was a leading figure in the womens voting rights movement. Raised in a Quaker household, Anthony went on to...

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    – Motto of the ‘Revolution’ Journal 1868–1870 Susan was born 15th February 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. Her parents were Quakers and activists in the anti-slavery movement. Susan was brought up in a strict Quaker climate, which emphasised concern for others, self-discipline and living a principled life. She later dropped organised religion, descri...

    Statement of Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1856), partially quoted in The Right to Vote (2001) by Claudia Isler, p. 50, and in Perfecting the Family: Antislavery Marriages in Nineteenth-Century America(1997) by Chris Dixon, p. 144 A defence of Elizabeth Cady Stanton against a motion to repudiate her Woman’s Bibleat a meeting of the National-A...

    Susan B. Anthony: Fighter for Women’s Rights at Amazon Related Women’s Rights Activists– Women who championed the cause of women’s rights. Including Mary Wollstonecraft, Emily Pankhurst, Susan B.Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. People who fought for human/civil rights– People who campaigned for equality, civil rights and civil justice. Includes ...

  5. Mar 9, 2010 · The amendment was known as the “Susan B. Anthony Amendment” to honor her work on behalf of womens rights, and on July 2, 1979, she became the first woman to be featured on a...

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  6. Feb 14, 2020 · "Susan B. Anthony worked tirelessly for sixty years to change restrictive voting laws and empower women. Her activism began with abolitionism in the 1840s, but she later opposed the Fifteenth Amendment, which granted suffrage to African American men.

  7. Nov 5, 2019 · Anthonys logic was based on the recently adopted 14th Amendment that stated that “all persons born and naturalized in the United States . . . are citizens of the United States.”. Anthony reasoned that that since women were citizens, and the privileges of citizens of the United States included the right to vote, states could not exclude ...

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