MY VOTE COUNTS
The Story of Susan B. Anthony
(1820 - 1906)
"I know nothing but women and her disfranchised."
Women's Rights and Liberty
The coin was one and 1/2 inches when it was first issued in 1794.
History
Susan was born on Febuary 15, 1820 in the village of Adams, MA. She was the second of eight children. Susan be gan teaching school at the age of 15 in New York. She taught until the age of 30.
Susan begame to work for The Women's Rights Foundation in 1851. There she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton.The two together worked to reform discrimination against women in New York. A nation wide sufferage became Susan and Elizabeth's dream. Voting was the only way to gain their Constitutional Rights. In 1869 they organized a national women's sufferage to work for a Consitutional Amendment to women's rights.
From 1868 to 1870 Anthony and Stanton published a newspaper called Revolution. It focused on the injustice suffered by women. To make her point even more clearly, in 1872, Susan cast a vote in a presidental election. Right afterwards Susan was arrested, but she refused to pay the $100 fine for the conviction.
At the age of 80 Susan became the president of The National Women's Sufferage Associaton. She continued to be a regular speaker at the conventions until her death. Susan Browell Anthony died on March 13, 1906.
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A statue of Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
Susan's partner for women's sufferage.
