Important People: Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony's Quaker upbringing greatly influenced the role she played in nineteenth-century America. Quakers did not believe in armed conflict or slavery, and they were among the first groups to practice full equality between men and women. Other American women did not experience the freedom and respect Anthony did while growing up. She worked to change that disparity, by becoming a leader in the crusade for women's rights. Born …showed first 75 words of 6463 total…

…showed last 75 words of 6463 total…Woman Suffrage Association (1890-1906) and by lecturing throughout the country. Anthony, along with Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage published the History of Woman Suffrage 4 vol (1881-1902) In 1888 she organized the International Council of Women and in 1904 the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Although Anthony did not live to see the consummation of her efforts to win the right to vote for women, the establishment of the 19th amendment is deeply owed to her efforts ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**