Susan B.

Susan B. Anthony - biography. American reformer and women's rights advocate Birth February 15, 1820 Death March 13, 1906 Place of Adams, Massachusetts Birth Known for Advocating woman suffrage Milestones 1851 Met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a fellow reformer with whom she would have a lifelong collaboration 1852 Was refused the right to speak at a temperance meeting and decided to focus her efforts on woman suffrage as a necessary first step to social reform 1868-1870 Edited and published the radical women's newspaper The Revolution 1869 Organized, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the National Woman Suffrage Association 1872 Was arrested, tried, and convicted of voting in the national presidential election; she refused to pay the $100 fine 1892-1900 Served as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (formerly the National Woman Suffrage Association) 1904 Founded the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in Berlin, Germany Did You Anthony pledged her life insurance policy to ensure the admission of women to the University of Rochester, which had agreed to admit Know women only if outside groups raised the money necessary to implement the plan. In addition to fighting for woman suffrage, Anthony advocated temperance and the abolition of slavery. At the time of Anthony's death in 1906, only four states allowed women to vote. Full voting rights for women were not guaranteed in the United States until ratification of the nineteenth amendment in 1920. A United States dollar coin, first issued in 1979, bears Anthony's profile. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.