Susan B. Anthony was a prominent American social reformer and women's rights activist who made significant contributions to several causes:
- She was an early advocate for the abolition of slavery, working with leading abolitionists and serving as the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
- She was a key figure in the temperance movement advocating abstinence from alcohol and co-founded the New York Women's State Temperance Society after being barred from speaking at a temperance meeting due to her gender.
- Anthony dedicated much of her life to the women's suffrage movement, campaigning for women's right to vote. She co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869 alongside Elizabeth Cady Stanton and was a driving force for the cause until her death.
- She worked on equal rights for women, including property rights for married women, and was influential in efforts that led to laws allowing married women greater property rights.
- In 1872, she was arrested for voting illegally in a presidential election, an act that helped propel national attention to women's suffrage.
- Anthony and her colleagues organized the Women's Loyal National League during the Civil War, conducting the largest petition drive at the time to support abolition.
- She helped found and funded organizations, published the women's rights newspaper The Revolution , and co-authored the multi-volume History of Woman Suffrage.
- Though she died before women won the right to vote, her work was instrumental in paving the way for the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which granted women suffrage and is often called the "Susan B. Anthony Amendment."
- Additionally, she persuaded the University of Rochester to admit women and was the first woman to appear on a U.S. coin, the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
Susan B. Anthony's lifelong activism significantly advanced women's rights and social reforms in the United States, particularly voting rights.
