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Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams Massachusetts. She was born and raised in a Quaker family with long activist traditions. The Quakers believed in education and Susan received excellent training. They believed in hard work, and Susan learned to work hard from an early age. They believed in generosity and charity. They believed in peace, temperance and justice, and this was to affect her adult concerns about injustices toward women, as well as …

…and Carrie Chapman Catt. She passed away in Rochester, New York on March 13, 1906. She died at home with her close friend, Anna Shaw at her side. After Susan B. Anthony’s death women were given the right to vote in a few western states and in the nations of New Zealand and Australia. It wasn’t till 1919 when the United States passed the 19th Amendment called the "Susan B. Anthony Amendment"—allowed women to vote.