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Susan B. Anthony

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  • Anti-Slavery movement

    Members of her family were active in the anti-slavery movement.

  • Elizabeth Stanton

    Elizabeth Stanton
    She attended an anti-slavery conference, where she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

  • Women's New York State Temperance Society

    Anthony and Stanton established the Women's New York State Temperance Society in 1852.

  • Better pay

    Better pay
    At the state teachers' convention, Anthony called for women to be admitted to the professions and for better pay for women teachers.

  • American Anti-Slavery Society

    She began working as an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.

  • Equality

    Equality
    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.

  • Women's National Loyal League

    Anthony and Stanton organized a Women's National Loyal League to support and petition for the Thirteenth Amendment outlawing slavery.

  • American Equal Rights Association

    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.

  • The Revolution

    Anthony and Stanton created and produced The Revolution, a weekly publication that lobbied for women's rights in 1868.

  • National Woman Suffrage Association

    Anthony and Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association.

  • Hester Vaughn case

    Hester Vaughn case
    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.

  • "enemy of labor"

    "enemy of labor"
    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.

  • Voting

    Voting
    She voted illegally in the Presidental election.

  • Prostitution

    Prostitution
    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.

  • Rights of Women

    Rights of Women
    She met with President Theodore Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., to lobby for an amendment to give women the right to vote.