Susan B. Anthony

1820 – 1906

Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the U.S. women's suffrage movement, co-founding the National Woman Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the American Equal Rights Association. In 1872 she was arrested and convicted for casting a ballot in the presidential election in Rochester, New York, refusing to pay the resulting fine in protest. She died in 1906, fourteen years before the Nineteenth Amendment finally enfranchised American women.

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