Person

Susan B. Anthony

1820–1906 · 19th century · Also known as Susan Brownell Anthony

Susan B. Anthony was an American campaigner for women's rights and the abolition of slavery, and the leading organiser of the movement for women's suffrage. With Elizabeth Cady Stanton she founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. Arrested for voting in the presidential election of 1872, she used her trial to argue the case for women's citizenship. She did not live to see the Nineteenth Amendment of 1920, which was widely called the Anthony Amendment.

Great speeches

Susan B. Anthony on Women's Right to Vote1873

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