Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony, (1820—1906), was a U.S. pioneer in the women’s suffrage movement. A precocious child, she learned to read and write at the age of three. After attending a boarding school in Philadelphia, she took a teaching position in a Quaker seminary in New York. She taught at a female academy (1846–49) and then settled in her family home near Rochester. There she met many leading abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. The rebuff of her attempt to speak at a temperance meeting in Albany in 1852 prompted her to organize the Woman’s State Temperance Society of New York. From this time she was a tireless campaigner for abolition and women’s rights. Du...View all