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Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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culture · American women's rights activist (1820–1906) · women's rights activist · human rights defender · abolitionist · writer · civil rights advocate · feminist · suffragist · also Susan B. Anthony, Susan Brownell Anthony, Anthony
Born 15 February 1820 · Died 13 March 1906 · Q192245
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2026· 6 entries
“I could not dash her faith with my doubts, nor could I pretend a faith I had not; so I was silent in the dread presence of death.”
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“Work and worship are one with me. I can not imagine a God of the universe made happy by my getting down on my knees and calling him”
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“The world has never witnessed a greater revolution than in the sphere of woman during this fifty years”
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“The Men, even the best of them, seem to think the Women”
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OneFootball: Minnesota United - Atlanta United 1 - 1 | GOL - Anthony Markanich
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2024· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Susan B. Anthony once said, "I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work for or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman."” Correct Attribution.
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2019· 2 entries
AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Photo of Susan B Anthony beaten by police in 1872” False.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Says a viral photo shows Susan B. Anthony being "beaten and arrested for trying to vote" in 1872.” False.
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2018· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows women's rights activist Susan B. Anthony being attacked during a protest in 1872.” Miscaptioned.
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1973· 1 entry
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1973).
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1928· 1 entry
Representative Charles Hillyer Brand gave a "brief statement of the life and activities" of Anthony—partly titled "militant suffragist"—in which he noted that in 1861, Anthony was "persuaded to give up preparations for t
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1922· 1 entry
By Harper after Anthony's death
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1906· 6 entries
Died 1906-03-13.
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“Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord to women equal power in the making, shaping and controlling of the circumstances of life.”
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“The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South.”
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“Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.”
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“The fact is women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize.”
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“Variant: Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God; I shall never pay a penny of this unjust claim.”
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1902· 2 entries
“Oh, this awful hush! It seems impossible that voice is stilled which I have loved to hear for fifty years. Always I have felt I must have Mrs. Stanton”
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After Stanton's death, with the help of Ida Husted Harper, Anthony's designated biographer
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1892· 1 entry
Anthony became NAWSA's president
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1890· 2 entries
When their organization merged with the rival American Woman Suffrage Association to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association, with Anthony as its key force
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The two organizations merged as the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), with Stanton as president but with Anthony as its effective leader
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1883· 1 entry
For a nine-month stay, linking up with Stanton, who had arrived a few months earlier
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1878· 1 entry
Anthony and Stanton arranged for Congress to be presented with an amendment giving women the right to vote
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1876· 2 entries
Moved into the Stanton household in New Jersey along with several trunks and boxes of these materials to begin working with Stanton on the History of Woman Suffrage
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On what eventually grew into the six-volume History of Woman Suffrage
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1875· 1 entry
Put an end to the strategy of trying to achieve women's suffrage through the court system when it ruled in Minor v
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1873· 4 entries
And was closely followed by the national press
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Anthony said, "An oligarchy of wealth, where the rich govern the poor; an oligarchy of learning, where the educated govern the ignorant; or even an oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured;
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“An oligarchy of wealth, where the rich govern the poor; an oligarchy of learning, where the educated govern the ignorant; or even an oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured; but surely this oligarchy of sex, which makes the men of every household sovereigns, masters; the women subjects, slaves; carrying dissension, rebellion into every home of the Nation, cannot be endured.”
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“An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony, on the charge of illegal voting, at the presidential election in Nov. 1872, and on the trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh and William B. Hall, the inspectors of election by whom her vote was received.”
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1872· 3 entries
“Is it a Crime For a U.S. Citizen to Vote?”
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Anthony was arrested in her hometown of Rochester, New York, for voting in violation of laws that allowed only men to vote
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Disgust with corruption in government led to a mass defection of abolitionists and other social reformers from the Republicans to the short-lived Liberal Republican Party
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1870· 1 entry
Debate about the Fifteenth Amendment was made irrelevant when that amendment was officially ratified
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1869· 1 entry
Anthony voiced approval of an employer-sponsored training program that would teach women skills that would enable them in effect to replace the strikers
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1868· 1 entry
With Anthony representing the Working Women's Association (WWA), which had recently been formed in the offices of The Revolution
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1867· 1 entry
The AERA campaigned in Kansas for referendums that would enfranchise both African Americans and women
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1866· 2 entries
Organized the Eleventh National Women's Rights Convention, the first since the Civil War began
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Began reaching out to farmers, African Americans and women, with the intention of forming a broad-based political party
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1862· 1 entry
However, during a period when the women's movement was largely inactive because of the American Civil War
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1861· 4 entries
Anthony said, "Let us open to the colored man all our schools
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A room was set aside for Anthony in every house they lived in
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Read, "Fitted out a fugitive slave for Canada with the help of Harriet Tubman
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“Let us open to the colored man all our schools ... Let us admit him into all our mechanic shops, stores, offices, and lucrative business avocations ... let him rent such pew in the church, and occupy such seat in the theatre ... Extend to him all the rights of Citizenship.”
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1860· 3 entries
When the legislature passed an improved Married Women's Property Act that gave married women the right to own separate property, enter into contracts and be the joint guardian of their children
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When Anthony sheltered a woman who had fled an abusive husband, Garrison insisted that the woman give up the child she had brought with her, pointing out that the law gave husbands complete control of children
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Favoring more lenient divorce laws, leading abolitionist Wendell Phillips not only opposed it but attempted to have it removed from the record
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1859· 1 entry
John Brown was executed for leading a violent raid on the U
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1857· 2 entries
“Do you not see that so long as society says a woman is incompetent to be a lawyer, minister, or doctor, but has ample ability to be a teacher, that every man of you who chooses this profession tacitly acknowledges that he has no more brains than a woman.”
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“the experience of the last winter is worth more to me than all my temperance and woman”
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1856· 2 entries
Anthony agreed to become the New York State agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society with the understanding that she would also continue her advocacy of women's rights
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Became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society
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1853· 3 entries
Anthony attended the World's Temperance Convention in New York City, which bogged down for three chaotic days in a dispute about whether women would be allowed to speak there
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Anthony worked with William Henry Channing, her activist Unitarian minister, to organize a convention in Rochester to launch a state campaign for improved property rights for married women, which Anthony would lead
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Her attempt sparked a half-hour debate among the men about whether it was proper for women to speak in public
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1852· 2 entries
Anthony attended her first National Women's Rights Convention, which was held in Syracuse, New York, where she served as one of the convention's secretaries
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Was elected as a delegate to the state temperance convention, but the chairman stopped her when she tried to speak, saying that women delegates were there only to listen and learn
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1851· 3 entries
Anthony was introduced to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who had been one of the organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention and had introduced the controversial resolution in support of women's suffrage
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Met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and co-worker in social reform activities, primarily in the field of women's rights
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Played a key role in organizing an anti-slavery convention in Rochester
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1850· 1 entry
The first in a series of National Women's Rights Conventions was held in Worcester, Massachusetts
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1849· 2 entries
Gave her first public speech at one of its meetings
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Anthony took over the operation of the family farm in Rochester so her father could devote more time to his insurance business
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1848· 4 entries
That recognized some rights for married women, but that law was limited
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A local event that was the first women's rights convention
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Inspired by the Seneca Falls Convention, the first women's rights convention, which was held two weeks earlier in a nearby town
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Formed a new organization called the Congregational Friends
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1846· 1 entry
To be headmistress of the female department of the Canajoharie Academy
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1845· 1 entry
The family moved to a farm on the outskirts of Rochester, New York, purchased partly with the inheritance of Anthony's mother, and the family became active in the anti-slavery movement
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1837· 1 entry
At age 16, Anthony collected petitions against slavery as part of organized resistance to the newly established gag rule that prohibited anti-slavery petitions in the U
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1820· 2 entries
Born 1820-02-15.
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To Daniel Anthony and Lucy Read Anthony in Adams, Massachusetts, the second-oldest of seven children
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