Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony. (February 15, 1820 - March 13, 1906). , The second of seven children of a Quaker cotton manufacturer and abolitionist, Susan Brownell Anthony learned to read and write at just 3 years old. Her father structured her upbringing around self-discipline, principled beliefs and self-respect. After her family lost everything in a financial crash, Anthony became a teacher and was compelled into activism by the pay inequalities in her profession. Despite her support for racial equality, she narrowed her focus as a women's rights activist after the Fifteenth Amendment failed to give women the right to vote. She was co-founder of numerous women's rights groups and a tireless public speaker who gave 75 to 100 speeches every year for 45 years. He boundless dedication to women's right continues to benefit generations of women., 1826 , Anthony's father withdrew her from school and taught her himself after her school refused to teach long division to girls., 1839 , Anthony became a teacher to support her family and began advocating equal pay for women in education, who earned a fourth of their male colleagues' salaries., 1849 , Anthony began attending conventions and gatherings in support of the temperance and abolitionist movements., 1851 , Anthony met fellow feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton and co-founded the first women's state temperance society with Stanton., 1852 , After her first public speech at a women's rights, convention, Anthony began to receive acclaim as a strong public advocate for women's suffrage., Watershed Moment , 1866 , A lifelong advocate for civil rights, Susan B. Anthony co-founded the American Equal Rights Association in 1866. After the Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gave only African-American men , and no women , the right to vote, she focused her efforts on entirely women's rights. In 1869, she co-founded the National Women Suffrage Association, an organization devoted to the creation of a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. The Nineteenth Amendment, which enabled women to vote, was enacted in 1920, 14 years after Anthony's death., 1898 , Anthony began publishing a weekly journal, The Revolution. It supported universal suffrage and covered inequalities in daily life.