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Long after the end of the Civil War and the end of slavery, America still treated women as second-class citizens. While there were many key figures in the women's rights movement of the late 19th century, few had the impact of Susan B. Anthony.
Anthony's advocacy for multiple social, political and economic causes spanned the entire second half of the 19th century. As early as 1868, Anthony's newspaper, The Revolution, had published an editorial demanding an eight-hour work day and equal pay for equal work.
Anthony was the co-founder (along with Elizabeth Stanton) of the American Equal Rights Association, an organization devoted to equal voting rights and equal economic rights.
In 1892, at the age of 72, Anthony became president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Despite her advanced age, she traveled the country and spent much of the decade campaigning in the West to ensure that the territories where women had the right to vote were not blocked from inclusion in the Union.
Anthony would not live to see the fruits of her labor. When the 19th Amendment, granting women the vote, was finally ratified in 1920, it was called the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.
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