Susan B Anthony

American 1820-1906

In 1869, Anthony co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton to secure a constitutional amendment allowing women to vote in the US. She toured the country delivering speeches promoting female suffrage and relentlessly lobbied Congress. Although Anthony clashed with the American Woman Suffrage Association, which campaigned on a state level, the two joined together in

1890 as the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Anthony became president in 1892, a role she continued until her retirement in 1900. She never lived to see the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted female suffrage in 1920.

Anthony was arrested and fined in 1872 for voting. She never paid the fine and her arrest brought attention to the suffrage movement

The 19th Amendment is known as the Susan B Anthony Amendment in her honour