Knowra Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony was an American women’s rights activist and abolitionist who helped lead the campaign for women’s suffrage. Her organizing, lecturing, and political advocacy made her a central figure in the movement.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton : An American women’s rights activist and abolitionist who helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention and lead the suffrage movement. Stanton was Anthony’s closest political partner; together they organized, lectured, and wrote for women’s rights.
National Woman Suffrage Association : A women’s suffrage organization founded in 1869 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Anthony co-founded and led this organization, which pursued a federal constitutional amendment for women’s voting rights.
Women's suffrage in the United States : The movement to secure voting rights for women in the United States, achieved nationally with ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. Anthony’s campaigns were part of this broader movement, which combined state-level efforts with demands for federal action.
1869 National Woman Suffrage Convention : A national suffrage gathering held in Washington, D.C., during the formation of competing women’s suffrage organizations. Anthony and Stanton used the convention and its aftermath to establish the National Woman Suffrage Association.
Lucy Stone : An American abolitionist and women’s rights activist who advocated for women’s suffrage and retained her birth name after marriage. Stone became a leading voice in a rival suffrage organization after disagreements over strategy and priorities.
History of Woman Suffrage : A multivolume history of the American women’s suffrage movement edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage. Anthony helped compile this account, preserving movement documents and shaping how its history was told.
Petition : A formal request signed by individuals and submitted to an authority for action or redress. Anthony organized petitions to press legislatures and Congress to recognize women’s voting rights.
United States presidential election, 1872 : The United States presidential election in which Susan B. Anthony cast an unlawful ballot in Rochester, New York. Anthony’s vote turned her suffrage argument into a public act that led to her arrest and trial.
Frederick Douglass : An American abolitionist, writer, and orator who campaigned against slavery and for equal rights. Douglass supported women’s suffrage and joined Anthony and Stanton at the Seneca Falls Convention.
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution : A 1920 amendment prohibiting the United States and its states from denying voting rights on account of sex. The amendment fulfilled the constitutional goal Anthony and fellow suffragists had campaigned for, though she died before ratification.
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