Faces of Money: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Medal shown: Susan B. Anthony, silver medal, 1967, United States
 Susan B. Anthony, 1820-1906, was raised as a Quaker in
Massachusetts where she observed the working conditions of the women in
her father's cotton mill.
As an adult she became a schoolteacher, one of the few respectable
jobs a middle-class woman could hold at the time. She became
involved in the abolitionist and woman’s suffrage movements in the
late 1840s.
After she was denied a chance to speak at meetings of temperance
advocates, she dedicated herself to winning equal rights for women.
Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association (1869) and later
served as president (1892–1900) of the National American Woman
Suffrage Association.
In the election of 1872 she cast a ballot and was arrested and fined
since women were not allowed to vote.
She constantly spoke out against injustices of all kinds, but
concentrated most of her energies in her final years in seeking a
constitutional amendment to allow women to vote.
She initiated the History of Woman Suffrage, organized the
International Council of Women (1888), and as late as 1904 was in Berlin
helping to found the International Woman Suffrage Alliance.
The ridicule that had greeted her in her first decades was replaced
by respect, and she became internationally known as the symbol of the
women's rights movement.
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