Susan B. Anthony's public career spanned a half-century. She was
a leader in the women's suffrage movement, temperance and
abolition organizer, ardent reformer, speaker, and author who
spent most of her life fighting for equality. This collection
contains publications, ephemera, photographs, correspondence and
writings related to her life's work. Susan B. Anthony (15 Feb.
1820-13 Mar. 1906), reformer and organizer for woman suffrage,
was born Susan Brownell Anthony in Adams, Massachusetts. In 1851
Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. In 1852 Anthony and Stanton
founded the Women's New York State Temperance Society, which
claimed an equality with the leading male society and featured
women's right to vote on the temperance question and to divorce
drunken husbands. In 1863 Anthony, again with Stanton, founded
the Women's Loyal National League; employing a loose network of
individuals and soldiers' aid and antislavery societies, the
league gathered petitions with 400,000 signatures, which were
presented to Congre