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1. Susan B. Anthony -- Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony
   Susan B. Anthony is a very important person in the history of the United States. She is ... famous in other parts of the world. She was brought up to respect the rights of others and she worked hard to free slaves. At one time, black people were the slaves of rich land owners and did not have any rights. Susan was one of the people who tried to get the laws changed so that these people could live with their families and own their own houses and land. The people who were in favor of slavery didn't like her very much.
2. Susan B. Anthony -- Anthony Susan B. Anthony
   Susan B. Anthony was one of the strongest advocates of Women's rights in the mid-19th century, and is a representative figure of this politically oriented types of feminists politics. . IN 1872 she was arrested after casting an 'illegal' vote in the presidential election. She was fined $100 but refused to pay. She delivered this speech in 1873.
3. Susan B. Anthony -- Susan B. Anthony Dollar
   This Susan B. Anthony Dollar 1st Day of Issue Cover was issued as a set of three. Each cover contains either a 1979 P, D, or S Anthony Dollar and is postmarked on July 2, 1979 in Philadelphia, PA (19104), Denver, CO (80202), or San Francisco, CA (94101) respectively. Each cover has a 13¢ Indian Head Cent stamp and either a 3¢ Susan B. Anthony stamp ("P" cover), a 6¢ Woman's Suffrage 50th Anniversary stamp ("D" cover), or a 3¢ Election Box stamp ("S" cover). The set of three comes in a blue paper cardstock folder.
4. Susan B. Anthony -- Susan B. Anthony House
   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.
5. B -- Susan B. Anthony
   After the Civil War, discouraged that those working for "Negro" suffrage were willing to continue to exclude women from voting rights, Susan B. Anthony became more focused on woman suffrage. She helped to found the American Equal Rights Association in 1866, and in 1868 with Stanton as editor, became publisher of Revolution. Stanton and Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, larger than its rival American Woman Suffrage Association with which it finally merged in 1890.
6. Susan B. Anthony
   Susan B. Anthony died on March 13, 1906 having dedicated her life to winning for women their political, civil, economic and educational rights. At Anthony’s funeral, her close friend and ally in the suffrage movement, Anna Howard Shaw, said of Susan B. Anthony, “Hers was a heroic life.”
7. Susan B. Anthony -- Meetings
   Anthony was born into a devout Quaker family in Adams, Massachusetts on February 15,1820. No toys or music were allowed in the Anthony home for fear that they would distract the children from God's word. The Anthonys stressed to their six children the need for each person to strive their best to make a contribution to the world. For their part, Susan's parents devoted themselves to the causes of abolitionism and temperance, two causes that Susan would ... champion.
8. Susan B. Anthony -- Father
   Before she was sixteen, Anthony started to teach, taking small jobs near her home. However, she began to feel that her own education had not been enough. Her father, who as a Quaker encouraged education in his daughters, enrolled her in Deborah Moulson's Female Seminary, a Quaker boarding school in Philadelphia, in 1837.
9. Susan B. Anthony -- Woman
   In the late 1870s Anthony, along with Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage, began to undertake the difficult task of writing the massive History of Woman Suffrage. Anthony did not consider this the most pleasant task she ever faced -- she said she would rather make history than write it -- but ... the first three volumes were published by 1886. (The History of Woman Suffrage eventually was six volumes long.)
10. Susan B. Anthony -- Women
    In 1872, in an attempt to claim that the constitution already permitted women to vote, Susan B. Anthony cast a test vote in Rochester, New York, in the presidential election. She was found guilty, though she refused to pay the resulting fine (and no attempt was made to force her to do so).

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