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She once said she wished “to live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women.” When she died on March 13, 1906, at the age of 86 from heart failure and pneumonia, women still did not have the right to vote. Anthony never married, and devoted her life to the cause of women’s equality. READ MORE: Early Women’s Rights Activists Wanted Much More than Suffrage Susan B. She ended up being fined $100-a fine she never paid. Anthony was arrested and tried unsuccessfully to fight the charges. She even took matters into her own hands in 1872 when she voted in the presidential election illegally. Later the pair edited three volumes of History of Woman Suffrage together alongside activist Matilda Joslyn Gage.Īnthony was tireless in her efforts, giving speeches around the country to convince others to support a woman’s right to vote. Its masthead read: “Men, their rights, and nothing more women, their rights, and nothing less.” Around this time, the two created and produced The Revolution, a weekly publication that lobbied for women’s rights under the American Equal Rights Association (AERA). Anthony and the Long Push for Women's Suffrage National Woman Suffrage AssociationĪnthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869 alongside activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She realized that no one would take women in politics seriously unless they had the right to vote, writing: “There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.”

Anthony was denied a chance to speak at a temperance convention because of her gender, she was inspired to shift her focus to the fight for women’s rights. The Anthonys were also part of the temperance movement, which attempted to cease the production and sale of alcohol in the United States. When they moved to Rochester, New York, in 1845, the Anthony’s social circle included anti-slavery activist Frederick Douglass, who would later join Anthony in the fight for women’s rights, and journalist William Lloyd Garrison. She grew up in a politically active family who, as part of the abolitionist movement, worked to end slavery. Born Susan Brownell Anthony on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, she was the daughter of Daniel Anthony, a cotton mill owner, and his wife, Lucy Read Anthony.