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Susan B Anthony is born
Susan Brownwell Anthony is born in Adams, Massachusetts into a Quaker family of eight. Her loving parents are named Lucy Read Anthony and Daniel Anthony, and her whole family strongly believes in education and come from a long family line of abolitionists. Her family is also active in the temperance movement, which worked to limit or stop the selling and use of alcohol. -
Taken out of School
Susan's father takes her and one of her sisters out of school as the Great Depression hits the family and her father is overcome with a sense of hopelessness. The family is short of money and lose their house. They decide to move to Rochester, New York. -
Teaching
Susan B. Anthony starts to teach at a school called Canajoharie Academy, where she recieves a salary of only $110 a year. -
The Seneca Falls Convention
A group of women hold a meeting in Seneca Falls, New York. Anthony does not attend, but the Seneca Falls convention is the first convention for women's rights ever in the United States. -
Meeting her partner
Susan B Anthony meets her lifelong partner, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. They work together to fight for the right to vote. Stanton and Anthony first meet at an antislavery meeting in the town of Seneca Falls, New York. The two of them make a great team, with Susan B Anthony handling the business part of the women's rights movement, while Elizabeth Cady Stanton takes care of speaking, expressing, and writing. -
Denied a Chance to Speak
At a convention of the Sons of Temperance in 1852, Susan intends to speak, but the men attending the meeting refuse her because she was a woman, telling her to "listen and learn". This is a turning point in Anthony's life, as she decides to join the women's suffrage movement. -
The Revolution
Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton publish their first copy of The Revolution, which is a newspaper that is published weekly. It speaks out about women's rights, and as the valid writing of the National Women's Suffrage Association, it was published for several years. -
The National Women's Suffrage Association
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Women's Suffrage Association, located in New York City. Anthony becomes the first president of the association. -
Susan B Anthony votes!
Susan B Anthony illegally votes in an election and is taken to court. She is fined $100 but refuses to pay it. She had hoped to take the case to higher court to get the word out about women's rights, but was not able to do so. Nevertheless, it was a great accomplishment for her. -
Susan B Anthony's Autobiography
Anthony publishes her autobiography, which is titled, "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, a Story of the Evolution of the Status of Women". -
A Meeting With the President
Susan B. Anthony meets with President Theodore Roosevelt to propose adding a suffrage amendment. -
Susan B Anthony's Death
Susan B. Anthony dies at the age of 86 of pneumonia and heart disease. A few of her last words were, "To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel." -
The 19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, passes, fourteen years after Susan B. Anthony's death.
