| Susan B. Anthony was born February
15, 1820 in Massachusetts. Anthony grew up in a Quaker family with
long activist traditions. She was a teacher for 15 years before she
became temperance. She was not allowed to speak at temperance
rallies because she was a woman. Because of this and her friend
Elizabeth Stanton Anthony decided to dedicate her life to woman suffrage
in 1852. Anthony was an abolitionist, educational reformer, labor
activist, temperance worker, suffragist, and women's rights
campaigner. Anthony died on March 13, 1906. In 1920 women got
the right to vote with the 19th Amendment, also known as the Susan B.
Anthony Amendment. |
