Susan B Anthony Was ARRESTED for Voting, Then Died Before Women Could Legally Vote

She became the face of a woman's right to vote, yet died before she was ever allowed to.

Susan B. Anthony grew up in a Quaker family that believed men and women were equals.

As a teacher, she was paid a fraction of what the men around her earned.

That injustice lit a fire, and she gave the next fifty years to the fight.

In 1872, she marched into a polling place in New York and voted, knowing it was illegal.

She was arrested, put on trial, and fined a hundred dollars she refused to ever pay.

She crossed the country giving speeches, gathering signatures, and demanding a constitutional amendment for women.

Critics mocked her, newspapers attacked her, and lawmakers turned her away again and again.

In 1906 she died, telling her supporters that failure was impossible and the work would go on.

Fourteen years later, the amendment that bears her name finally gave women the vote.

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