Susan B. Anthony, a courageous fighter for equal justice in the country that she loved, did not live to see the movement she is synonymous with—votes for women—achieve its goal. Nonetheless, she will go down in history as one of women's suffrage's most energetic advocates. Born to a Quaker family in Adams, Massachusetts, Anthony was educated alongside her brothers (unusual for that time). She met Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison and became an avid abolitionist by the age of 17, speaking out against slavery even when some thought it inappropriate for a woman to speak out publicly.

​Alongside her friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony founded the American Equal Rights Association to fight for women's right to vote. Though the movement had been unsuccessful, Anthony voted for President in 1872 in Rochester, New York.  She was arrested! Her case drew even more attention to the women's suffrage movement, and eventually Anthony became the head of a consolidated organization for women's suffrage, the National Woman Suffrage Association.  Fourteen years after Anthony's death in 1906, Congress passed the 19th Amendment, ensuring that women had the right to vote.