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Members of her family were active in the anti-slavery movement.
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She attended an anti-slavery conference, where she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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Anthony and Stanton established the Women's New York State Temperance Society in 1852.
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At the state teachers' convention, Anthony called for women to be admitted to the professions and for better pay for women teachers.
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She began working as an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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Anthony spoke before the state teachers' convention at Troy, N.Y. and at the Massachusetts teachers' convention, arguing for coeducation (boys and girls together) and claiming there were no differences between the minds of men and women.
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Anthony and Stanton organized a Women's National Loyal League to support and petition for the Thirteenth Amendment outlawing slavery.
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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 in 1868.
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Anthony and Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association.
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Anthony persuaded the Workingwomen's Association in New York to investigate the case of Hester Vaughn, a poor working woman accused of murdering her illegitimate child.
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At the National Labor Union Congress, the men's Typographical Union accused her of strike- breaking and running a non-union shop at The Revolution, and called her an enemy of labor.
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She voted illegally in the Presidental election.
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She attacked the "social evil" of prostitution in a speech in Chicago, calling for equality in marriage, in the workplace, and at the ballot box to eliminate the need for women to go on the streets.
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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.
