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Susan B. Anthony: The National American Woman Suffrage Association
Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida B. Wells, and Alice Paul all are household names, and the former has secured her place on the American silver dollar. Anthony is known for her role in the foundation of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, or NAWSA, an organization that she eventually became the second president of. Born in 1820, she grew up in a Quaker family, her ideals grounded in the belief that women, in all aspects, should be equal to men. In 1853, she joined a campaign to extend women’s property rights, but after the Civil War, she refused to support any amendments giving African-Americans the right to vote unless it also granted the vote to their women counterparts. A statue of her with fellow suffragettes Elizabeth

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