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Susan B. Anthony: Susan B. Anthony House
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The Susan B. Anthony House shares the story of Susan B. Anthony’s lifelong struggle to gain voting rights for women and equal rights for all. We keep her vision and struggle alive by owning and protecting Anthony’s National Historic Landmark home; collecting artifacts and research materials directly related to her life and work; and making these resources available to the public through tours, publications, the Internet and interpretive programs.
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View the finding aid for the Susan B. Anthony Papers that are housed in the Manuscript Division of the Library. Additional items from her papers are featured elsewhere on the Library's Web site. The American Memory collection Words and Deeds in American History includes an 1896 letter of Anthony's discussing women ministers. American Women, another American Memory collection, includes a handwritten copy of an 1859 speech on another cause Anthony championed—the abolition of slavery. Search this collection for additional information on Women’s Suffrage materials found throughout the Library of Congress.
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For forty years, this simple brick house served as the private home and political headquarters of Susan B. Anthony, one of the American women's rights movement's most prominent leaders. Anthony started her career as an activist in 1849 when she moved to and quickly involved herself in Rochester's active reform movements. Before and during the Civil War, as Anthony traveled throughout New York organizing abolitionist meetings, she became increasingly aware of society's false ideas regarding the superiority of males and women's inferior role in life. When it became clear after the Civil War that the 14th and 15th Amendments would grant African-American males full citizenship, but not white women, Anthony and other feminists formed the Equal Rights Association, and broke with their abolitionist allies. In 1869, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed a militant wing of the women's rights movement that argued for the full acceptance of the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments. During the 1870s and 1880s, Anthony and Stanton formed a powerful partnership, traveling, speaking, and inspiring the formation of suffrage societies all over the United States.
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Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to secure women's suffrage in the United States. She traveled the United States and Europe, and gave 75 to 100 speeches per year on women's rights for some 45 years. Susan B. Anthony died in Rochester, New York in her house at 17 Madison Street on March 13, 1906, and is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery.
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In 1826, when Anthony was six years old, she moved with her family to a large brick house in Battenville, New York. Battenville is a town in the Hudson Valley region approximately thirty-five miles north of Albany. The house included a store and a schoolroom. There Anthony, along with her brothers, sisters and some neighborhood children, received the bulk of her formal education in a home school established by her father. There, some of her teachers were women.
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Anthony's childhood home was placed on the National Historic Register in 2007 and NY State Historic Register 2006. The Susan B. Anthony House in Rochester was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965 and is operated now as a museum.[4]
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