The Nineteenth Amendment is known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, and not without reason. Anthony's ground-breaking, controversial, and influential activism paved the way for women's rights in the United States.
Born in Massachusetts in 1820, Anthony's Quaker upbringing laid a strong foundation for her work as an abolitionist; Anthony became an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1856 and continued to fight for freedom for slaves despite angry mobs and bitter threats.
Anthony was no stranger to opposition. As a teacher, labor activist, and leader of the women's suffrage movement, Anthony was attacked for her involvement with various organizations: the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the Women's State Temperance Society (which she founded in 1853 with fellow
women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton), the American Equal Rights Association, and The Revolution, the Rochester-based newspaper that she and Stanton established in 1868. Her activism ultimately provided women with a new sense of freedom.
A pioneer for the woman suffrage movement, Anthony dedicated her life to gender equality. Her tenacious petitioning finally convinced the University of Rochester to admit women in 1900.
Though Anthony witnessed these seeds of change before her death in 1906, it wasn't until the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920 that women were legally allowed to vote. In1979, Susan B. Anthony became the first woman to have her likeness appear on a circulating United States coin.
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