Susan B. Anthony
By Emily Brown - 6th period
Biography
Born February 5, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, Susan B. Anthony was a social reformer, an abolitionist, a strong supporter of the temperance movement, and a fierce feminist who played a large role in helping women gain the right to vote. She grew up in a Quaker community in Pennsylvania, and after she completed boarding school she became a teacher. After ten years of teaching, Anthony tired of the profession and its endless prejudice against women, so she quit and became a full-time activist. She met and developed a close friendship with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and together the two of them crusaded relentlessly for women's right to vote, temperance, and abolition. Unfortunately, Susan B. Anthony died on March 13, 1906, more than a decade before women could legally vote.