Susan Brownell Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts.  She was a pivotal player in the women's suffrage movement.   An avid abolishionist, she worked with her family to end slavery from an early age.  She was inspired to fight for women's rights when denied a chance to speak at a temperance convention because she was a woman.  With the help of her lifelong friend, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, they founded the National Women's Suffrage Association in 1869.  They also created a weekly publication called the Revolution.  She was tireless in her efforts in trying to convince others to support a woman's right to vote.  She voted illegally in the presidential election in her home town once.  Even though arrested, she never paid the fines and tried to fight the charges.

 

When she died on March 13, 1906, women still did not have the right to vote.  Fourteen years after her death in 1920, the Fourteenth Amendment was passed and gave women the right to vote.  In recognition of her hard work and tireless dedication to women's suffrage, the US Treasury Department put her portrait on the one dollar coin in 1979, making her the first woman to be so honored.