ABSTRACT
Susan Brownell Anthony campaigned for women's rights by bringing the abuse and second-class status of women to the world's attention. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, into a prosperous Quaker family in rural Massachusetts. In 1839 her family sent her to a Philadelphia Quaker girls' academy for additional education, a rarity at a time when women were often denied advanced educations. Anthony began her political career in Rochester, joining the temperance (anti-alcohoi) movement. She soon became involved in other political issues of the day—the abolition of slavery, workers' rights, and a woman's right to own property. In 1851, Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the organizers of the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York. Susan B. Anthony gave the American women's rights movement form and momentum, and was pivotal in helping women gain the right to vote in the United States.
