Susan B. Anthony

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Susan B. Anthony was a pioneering American activist born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. Raised in a Quaker household, she was instilled with a strong belief in equality, which guided her life's work. Anthony became a prominent figure in the abolitionist movement, serving as an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1856. Her commitment to equality also led her to advocate for women's rights, particularly suffrage. In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with whom she formed a lifelong partnership in fighting for women's rights. Anthony co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) in 1869, opposing the Fifteenth Amendment for excluding women's suffrage. She illegally voted in the 1872 presidential election, drawing national attention to her cause. Anthony traveled extensively, advocating for women's rights and organizing suffrage movements across the U.S. She became president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1892, following the merger of the NWSA and the American Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony's tireless efforts laid the groundwork for the Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote in 1920, fourteen years after her death.