Susan B. Anthony
1820–1906 (age 86)
activist/suffragist
Biography
Susan B. Anthony was a relentless voice for women's suffrage and equal citizenship, organizing across the country to demand that women be counted fully in the democratic process. She forged alliances with abolitionists and temperance advocates, helped found the National Woman Suffrage Association, and traveled tirelessly to share the message that every citizen should be treated with equal dignity.
Her brave insistence on voting and on civil rights earned her both admiration and arrests, yet she remained steadfast in the belief that justice would prevail; she died in 1906, confident that the cause she championed would one day prevail, and was laid to rest at Mount Hope Cemetery near those who shared her struggle.