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A legendary life
Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony
1820 – 1906
Social reformer, abolitionist, and central organizer of the American women's suffrage movement.
Her story
A life that changed history
Susan B. Anthony began collecting antislavery petitions as a teenager and became a leading national organizer for women's voting rights. She endured ridicule and arrest while building organizations and campaigns that sustained the suffrage movement for decades.
“Being persons, then, women are citizens; and no state has a right to make any law, or to enforce any old law, that shall abridge their privileges or immunities.”
“Is It a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?”, 1873
“Yes, your honor, I have many things to say; for in your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government.”
Statement before sentencing in United States v. Susan B. Anthony, 18 June 1873