A&E Biography › Susan B. Anthony

Born in Adam, Massachusetts in 1820, Susan Brownell Anthony is commonly known as the first woman to have a coin minted in her honor. However, her extraordinary work paved the way for woman's suffrage and many other political and personal victories for the women's movement--though she never lived to see the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. After being denied the right to speak at a temperance rally, the dedicated educator, abolitionist and activist directed all of her attention towards winning the right to vote for women--a quest that would take her throughout the entire United States, up to the highest corridors of power, and even land her in prison. Determined, intelligent and fiercely independent, Susan B. Anthony proved to be a genuine rebel with a cause.