Susan Brownell Anthony , USA (1820-1906)
Women's rights leader, born in Adams, Massachusetts USA. After she was denied a chance to speak at meetings of temperance advocates, she dedicated herself to winning full rights for women. Teamed with Elizabeth Stanton, she gained her first success with the passage of New York State's Married Women's Property Act (1860).
Between 1868-70 she was publisher of the Revolution, a female suffrage paper. With Stanton she founded the National Woman Suffrage Association (1869); dissatisfaction with Stanton's, methods and goals led to a schism within the movement, but in 1890 the two main groups were united as the National American Woman Suffrage Association, of which Anthony served as President (1892-1900).
She constantly spoke out against injustices of all kinds but concentrated most of her energies in seeking a constitutional amendment to allow women to vote. In 1872 she cast a ballot in the general election and was arrested and fined; in 1905 she personally visited President Theodore Roosevelt to urge his support for women's suffrage.