Susan B. Anthony

Born: 1820

Died: 1906

Country of Birth: USA

Nationality: USA

Ethnicity: White

Received education from District School in Battensville, NY & a school founded & run by her father; attended 1 semester at boarding school in Philadelphia

Field of Study: Social reform

Institution/Corporation: League of Women Voters

Degrees & Memberships: Member: Temperance Movement

Awards: 1950, Hall of Fame for Great americans; 1979, 1st female depicted on a US coin; 1997, Perkins Medal; 2010, Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum opened in Adams, MA; 1973, National women's Hall of fame; 1936, appeared on postal stamp with caption "Suffrage for Women," a 2nd stamp with her image was issued 1958; since 1970 the NYC chapter of the National Organization for Women has given the susan B. Anthony Award;

Achievements: 1892-1900, President of National Women's Suffrage Association; 1846-1849, taught at a female academy in upper NYS; approxiamtely 1852, organized Women's NYS Temperance society; 1856, served as chief NY agent for American anti-slavery society; 1866, was secretary of American Equal Rights Association; during the early civil War years helped organize the Women's National Loyal League; 1868-70, publisher of The Revolution; 1968, represented the working Women's Association of NY at the National Labor Union convention; 1869, organized a women's suffrage convention in D.C.; 1869, formed the National Women suffrage Association (NWSA) with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, retired from it 1900; 1888, helped found International Council of Women; wrote a 6-volume History of Woman suffrage with Elizabeth Cady Stantojn & Matilda J. Cage; 1848, helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention, the 1st women's rights convention; 1920, National American Women suffrage Association became the League of Women votersher papers are at the Library of Harvard University & its Radcliffe Institute, Rutgers University, the Library of Congress, & Smith College;