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Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony.
History of Woman Suffrage Volume 1 edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1887
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Susan B. Anthony (left) and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
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Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony, a founder of the International Council of Women.
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woman suffrage international gathering
International gathering of woman suffrage advocates in Washington, D.C., 1888. Seated...
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Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Title page of the 1792 American edition of Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication...
Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Quakers
A painting from the early 1800s shows a Quaker meeting. Like other Quakers, Susan...
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Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony.
History of Woman Suffrage Volume 1 edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1887
Nineteenth Amendment
The Nineteenth Amendment, which granted women the right to vote in the United States.
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abolitionist movement
American abolitionist Wendell Phillips speaks against the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850...
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women's rights
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (seated) and Susan B. Anthony were leaders in the fight for...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC USZ 62 37938)
Women's suffrage: international gathering, 1888
International gathering of women's suffrage advocates in Washington, D.C., 1888;...
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National American Woman Suffrage Association
The program cover of the National American Woman Suffrage Association's march on...
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Susan B. Anthony coin
An image of Susan B. Anthony appears on a U.S. dollar coin. She was the first woman...
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