About Susan B. Anthony Day
"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world. I am like a snowball – the further I am rolled the more I gain."
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
A commemorative holiday to celebrate the birth of Susan B. Anthony and women's suffrage in the United States.
Susan B. Anthony (February 15th 1820 – March 13th 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
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