Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony was an American reformer central to the nineteenth-century women's suffrage and abolitionist movements. Raised in a Quaker family, she worked first as a teacher before turning to social reform, campaigning for the abolition of slavery, temperance, and women's rights. With Elizabeth Cady Stanton she co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association and published the newspaper The Revolution. In 1872 she voted in the presidential election and was arrested; at her 1873 trial she was convicted and fined $100, which she refused to pay. She spent decades lecturing, organizing, and petitioning for women's legal and political equality. She died in 1906 in Rochester, New York, fourteen years before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified.