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Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts on February 15, 1820. Anthony grew up in a very politically active family, which in the early 1800's fought against slavery and was a part of the abolitionist movement. Anthony learned at a very young age that equality is the most necessary in having a healthy society. She tried to speak in many movements like the temperance movement (alcohol) but she was denied the chance to speak her mind in a political manner. She then realized that women would never be taken seriously if they were unable to vote. When Anthony was fifty nine she founded the National Women's Suffrage Association. Her and Elizabeth Cady Stanton wrote publications stressing the importance of women's rights and how wrong women suffrage truly is. In 1872 Anthony was so tired of the flawed law that she took matters in her own hands and voted in the presidential election illegally. She was eventually arrested and fined 100 dollars but decided to never pay the fine because she felt she did nothing wrong. On March 13, 1906 Anthony died still without the right to vote, but her actions along with other brave women passed the 19th Amendment only 14 years later. She was essential in the fight for women rights and she opened the door for powerful women today such as Hilary Clinton.

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