Susan B. Anthony

Susan Brownell Anthony (1820 – 1906) was an American social reformer, abolitionist, and women's rights crusader. Raised in a Quaker family committed to social equality, Anthony collected anti-slavery petitions at age seventeen and became an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society in New York.

In 1851, she formed a lifelong partnership with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, co-founding the American Equal Rights Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). In 1872, Anthony was arrested and convicted in Rochester, New York, for voting in the presidential election, using her high-profile trial to articulate constitutional arguments for universal enfranchisement. Anthony traveled thousands of miles across America giving dozens of speeches annually for over fifty years. When the 19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote was ratified in 1920, it was universally known as the 'Susan B. Anthony Amendment'.