Susan B. Anthony
Susan B Anthony was a leading proponent of woman suffrage, which is the right to vote. In 1896 the National Women Suffrage Association was founded. She grew up with a strict Quaker family and developed a positive view of womanhood from her teacher at home, Mary Perkins. Early in her life she got a sense of justice and morality. She taught for fifteen years, and then became active in practicing temperance, but because she was a woman, she was not allowed to speak at the rallies. This experience led her to join the women’s rights movement in 1852 and became dedicated to suffrage. She ignored opposition and abuse and traveled the world lecturing and canvassing for women’s rights. She remained actively passionate about this until the day she died in 1906.