Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts, to a Quaker family. She became a schoolteacher in 1839 and taught for 10 years. In 1849 she became active in the temperance movement and three years later established a separate women’s temperance society. She began working for women’s rights in 1854. With Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anthony founded the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in 1869 to work for voting rights for women. Anthony and Stanton published a weekly newspaper, The Revolution, from 1868 to 1870. Anthony also fought for women’s equality in work opportunities and pay, and for less restrictive divorce laws. In 1872 she was arrested for attempting to vote in a presidential election in Rochester, New York. Anthony became president of NAWSA in 1892 and served until 1900. Anthony was a coauthor of History of Woman Suffrage (1881­1902). With Carrie Chapman Catt, Anthony founded the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1904.
