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Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownwell Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Massachusetts to a very strict Quaker family. She grew up learning that people should not be discriminated against because of sex. She and her sisters were educated by a female teacher at home so that they could get a good education. For several years she taught in a school in New York near her family home, but became frustrated at not earning as much as the male teachers did. She began campaigning as an abolitionist and also pushed for temperance (lower the use of alcohol). She turned to women’s rights issues when she was not permitted to speak at a temperance meeting. In 1851, she joined forces with Elisabeth Cady Stanton and they worked together for nearly 50 years. While Stanton focused on many issues, Anthony centered on women’s right to vote. In 1869, they founded the National Women’s Suffrage Association, which Anthony was president of later in her life. In 1872, Susan was arrested for trying to vote, but refused to pay the $100 fine, thinking it was unjust. Susan B. Anthony gave speeches all over the US, and was the driving force behind the women’s rights movement for nearly 55 years. In 1906, in her final speech, she stated “Failure is impossible.” She did not live to see the 19th amendment ratified in 1920, because she died in 1906. She never married.
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