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Chronicling America is a searchable digital collection of historic newspaper pages through 1963 sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
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Also, see the Directory of U.S. Newspapers in American Libraries, a searchable index to newspapers published in the United States since 1690, which helps researchers identify what titles exist for a specific place and time, and how to access them.
“No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent,” declared Susan B. Anthony, renowned American social reformer and suffragist. Alongside close friend and partner Elizabeth Stanton, Susan B. Anthony campaigned for women’s rights in the United States. The Nineteenth Amendment, granting women the right to vote, is popularly known as the Anthony Amendment. She also became the first non-fictitious woman to appear on U.S. currency when her portrait appeared on the 1979 dollar coin. Read more about it!
The information in this guide focuses on primary source materials found in the digitized historic newspapers from the digital collection Chronicling America.
The timeline below highlights important dates related to this topic and a section of this guide provides some suggested search strategies for further research in the collection.
| February 25, 1883 | Susan B. Anthony plans a sojourn to Great Britain and France. |
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| January 25, 1885 | Susan B. Anthony reprimands Howard University President at close of church service. |
| January 15, 1893 | Ms. Anthony commemorated at National American Women’s Suffrage Association annual meeting. |
| April 1894 | Susan B. Anthony explains how she paid back a $10,000 debt by entering the challenging lecture circuit. |
| July 27, 1905 | Ms. Anthony is critical of Los Angeles library board replacing a woman employee with an unproven male for a higher salary. |
| March 13, 1906 | Susan B. Anthony, long-time head of woman’s suffrage movement dies at age eighty-seven, fourteen years before passage of the of the Nineteenth Amendment. |
| Sept. 4, 1920 | Story in Dearborn newspaper attributes passage of women’s suffrage amendment to Quaker women: Susan B. Anthony and Alice Paul. |
