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Born in North Adams, Massachusetts, Susan B. Anthony (1820 - 1906) became a spokesperson for temperance, abolition, and woman suffrage. Although she did not attend the Woman's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls in 1848 because she was head schoolmistress at Canajahorie Academy, she soon quit teaching and devoted her life to the reform movement. Along with her best friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton, these two women published the first feminst newspaper called The Revolution, and organized numerous women's groups to advance the cause of female suffrage for fifty years.
Arrested in 1872 for voting illegally in Rochester, New York , in the reelection of President Ulysses S. Grant, Anthony spoke in her own defense . Although she did not live to see the day, her tireless struggle for women's rights legalized the vote for American women in 1920.
Selected Performance Sites:
North Stonington (CT) Historical Society, October 08
Lakeville Public Library, March 07
Sherborn Public Library, February 07
Millyard Museum, Manchester (NH), March 06
Ntl. Archives & Records Administration, Waltham, October 04
Rotary Club program, Concord, September 04
Mass. Commission on Status of Women (MCSW), Boston, August 04
Walpole Public Library, May 04
Merrimack (NH) Public Library, April 04
J.V. Fletcher Library, Westford (MA), March 04
Whitman (MA) Public Library, February 02
First Parish Community Center, New Bedford, March 00
Memorial Hall Library, Andover, March 00
Medford Historical Society, September 99
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