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Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts.
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While Susan was little, she moved to Battenville, New York with her family where she was sent to study at a Quaker school near Philadelphia.
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In 1851 Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and over the next year the two women discovered the sort of liberating partnership they could forge. Their ideas were converging. Anthony had found women welcome in the temperance movement as long as they confined themselves to a separate sphere and did not expect an equal role with men, while Stanton had focused her attention on the need for women to reform law in their own interests, both to improve their conditions and to challenge the "maleness" of
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Anthony and Stanton founded the Women's New York State Temperance Society, which, even in its name, claimed an equality with the leading male society and featured women's right to vote on the temperance question and to divorce drunken husbands. Beginning as an agent for this society, Anthony became a full-time reformer.
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Anthony began working as an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society and spent years promoting the society's cause up until the Civil War
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By this time, the Civil War has started and everything had to be put on hold
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She helped establish the American Equal Rights Association with Stanton, calling for the same rights to be granted to all regardless of race or sex.
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Anthony and Stanton created and produced The Revolution, a weekly publication that lobbied for women's rights. The newspaper's motto was "Men their rights, and nothing more; women their rights, and nothing less."
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In 1869, Anthony and Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony was tireless in her efforts, giving speeches around the country to convince others to support a woman's right to vote.
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Anthony was arrested for voting illegally, and she unsuccessfully fought the charges; she was fined $100, which she never paid.
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Susan gives her famous speech at the Union Hall. Everybody was encouraged to hear her speech.
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Founded this organization and worked with other women to show the importance of women's rights
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She met with President Theodore Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., to lobby for an amendment to give women the right to vote, still hoping for a change.
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Anthony died on March 13, 1906, at the age of 86, at her home in Rochester, New York. Shortly before dieing, Anthony told her friend Anna Shaw, "To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel."
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In recognition of her dedication and hard work, the U.S. Treasury Department put Anthony's portrait on dollar coins which made her the first woman to be honored on a U.S. coin.
