Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts, and raised in a Quaker family that moved to Rochester, New York, where their farm hosted antislavery meetings. She worked as a teacher, was drawn into temperance and antislavery reform and, after meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851, became a lifelong organizer for women's rights. She was an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society, co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869 and led the merged National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 to 1900. The Nineteenth Amendment, ratified in 1920, is often called the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.

Anthony became a symbol of the women's suffrage movement, and admirers credit her decades of organizing, petitioning and speaking with building the national campaign that culminated in the Nineteenth Amendment. In 1979 she became the first non-fictional woman depicted on circulating U.S. currency. Historians also note limits and controversies. When the Fifteenth Amendment enfranchised Black men but not women, she and Stanton broke with former allies, including Frederick Douglass, and the National Park Service notes that Douglass was hurt by their insulting arguments against African Americans. The History of Woman Suffrage, which she co-wrote, focuses on white suffragists and omits most suffragists of color. The Park Service also notes that the 1873 verdict denied her the chance to appeal to the Supreme Court.