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=Susan B. Anthony =

Key Facts


 * A veteran of many reform campaigns
 * Tried to vote in the 1872 presidential election and was fined $100, which she refused to pay
 * In 1890, she helped form the National American Woman Suffrage Association to work for the enfranchisement of women
 * Her occupations: activist, reformer, teacher, lecturer
 * Known for: key spokesperson for the 19th century women's suffrage movement
 * Raised as a Quaker
 * At age 29, Susan became involved in abolitionism and then temperance
 * Elizabeth Cady Stanton became her lifelong partner in political organizing
 * Helped to found the American Equal Rights Association in 1866
 * Born: February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts
 * Died: Rochester, NY on March 13,1906 of pneumonia and heart failure
 * Invested fifty years of her life advocating for the social and legal equality of women
 * Served as Vice President and later President of National Women's Suffrage Association
 * The first woman to be honored on circulating U.S coinage
 * Also campaigned for the abolition of slavery
 * Never married, was aggressive and compassionate by nature

Video media type="custom" key="5328645" Sources America Past & Present pg.555, 467 World Book pg.544 www.lkwdpl.org/wiohio/anth-su.htm www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/biography.shtml www.library.thinkquest.org/j001621/susananthony.html