Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony
- Born: February 15, 1820 in Adams, MA
- Died: March 13, 1906 in Rochester, NY
- Buried in Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester, NY
- Inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1973
Legendary suffragist. Abolitionist. Civil Rights leader.
Allow us to introduce you to the boss lady of women’s suffrage. Susan B. Anthony lived and breathed the movement for 40 years, making her home the hub for planning strategies, organizing campaigns, writing speeches, and preparing petitions. She knew that without the right to vote, women would keep fighting the same battles for equality over and over again. (If she only knew how much this is still happening.) Her bold activism resulted in her arrest and a controversial (aka rigged) local trial that gained legal scrutiny and national attention. This profile in courage would not be deterred from her fight to guarantee that “the right to vote shall not be denied on account of sex.” The 19th Amendment, which became widely known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, was passed in 1920, fourteen years after her death.
“Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.”
— Susan B. Anthony
Learn more about Susan B. Anthony
There are many places in the Finger Lakes to visit where you can learn more about Susan B. Anthony and trace her footsteps. Susan’s house that she shared with her sister – the same house where she was famously arrested for voting – has been converted into a museum. The Susan B. Anthony House & Museum is open to the public six days a week and regularly hosts lectures and special events.
Susan was buried close to her Rochester home in Mount Hope Cemetery. Every year, thousands of visitors come by to pay their respects to her legacy and the work she did for women’s rights and abolition.
