Susan B. Anthony
Susan B.
Anthony was an American reformer who led the fight for women's suffrage in the nineteenth century.
She was arrested in 1872 for voting illegally in a presidential election.
The Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote, is sometimes called the Susan B.
Anthony Amendment.
Her image appears on a U.S. dollar coin first minted in 1979.
- voting rightsEntitlement to elect officials
- right to voteLegal power to elect
- votes for womenFemale electoral participation rights
- feministGender equality proponent
- suffragetteMilitant women's voting advocate
Frederick Douglass · activist · social reformer · coinage · arrested · Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Rochester · dollar coin · equality · trial · leader · Ida B. Wells · illegal voting · temperance movement · abolitionist · 19th amendment · Quaker · crusader
- notable womenRosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Florence Nightingale, Amelia Earhart
- reformersreformers, reformer, social reformers, social reformer, political reformer
- SuffragistsElizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, John Stuart Mill, enfranchisement, equal suffrage
- coinspennies, leu, silver eagles, nickels, ban
- women's historywomen's history, herstory, women's movement, suffrage movement, notable women
- activistsactivist, Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activists, protester, campaigner
stance on women's suffrage
Susan B. AnthonyGrover Cleveland
Twice-elected nineteenth-century executive