Susan B. Anthony was born in 1820. In the 1800s, American women had no say in government. Anthony spent her life fighting to change that.
As a teacher, Anthony called for better pay for women teachers and equal treatment of boys and girls in school. She also worked for decades to end slavery. Anthony soon saw that women needed the right to vote in order to bring about such changes.
In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Together, they led the charge to secure voting rights for women. Anthony made speeches all over the U.S. Critics accused her of being bossy. Anthony said she just wanted to succeed. "I feel I must watch every potato which goes into the dinner pot and supervise every detail of the work," she once said.
Anthony appeared before every U.S. Congress from 1869 to 1906 to ask for an amendment to the Constitution protecting women's right to vote. Sadly, she died in 1906, before her dream came true. The 19th Amendment was passed in 1920. In 1979, the introduction of the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin made her the first woman to appear on U.S. currency.