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Women in History

Who Changed The World!

Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women’s rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement.

Following the Civil War, Anthony began to concentrate exclusively on woman’s issues and, especially, the campaign for suffrage. Anthony spent her life working for women’s rights. She was a champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work, Susan Brownell Anthony became one of the most visible leaders of the women’s suffrage movement.

Anthony died in 1906, 14 years before women were given the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920.

On October 10, 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed the Susan B. Anthony Dollar Coin Act into law, known as the Public Law 95-447. This law did not only make a woman’s face appear on a circulated coin but also added some changes to the size and look of coins.