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Susan B. Anthony

American suffragist
Also known as: Susan Brownell Anthony
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Susan B. Anthony (born February 15, 1820, Adams, Massachusetts, U.S.—died March 13, 1906, Rochester, New York) was an American activist who was a pioneer crusader for the women’s suffrage movement in the United States and was president (1892–1900) of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Her work helped pave the way for the Nineteenth Amendment (1920) to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote. Anthony was reared in the Quaker tradition in a home pervaded...

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