They demanded new laws protect everyone’s right to vote black or white, man or woman. The league gathered thousands of petitions to outlaw slavery. Anthony and fellow reformer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, put their women's rights work on hold to organize the Woman's Loyal League. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed the Susan B. Anthony was the first woman to be honored by having her likeness appear on a circulating United States coin. Anthony Dollar Coin Act into law (Public Law 95-447).Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady thought the time had finally come for women’s suffrage. Anthony was the first woman to be honored by having her likeness appear on a circulating United States coin.
After the 13th Amendment passed, making slavery unlawful, Susan B.
Anthony and fellow reformer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, put their women’s rights work on hold to organize the Woman’s Loyal League. Even when her image was hung in effigy and dragged through the streets of Syracuse, she kept on working for abolition.ĭuring the Civil War, Susan B. Anthony encountered hostile mobs, armed threats, and had things thrown at her, she did not quit. Anthony served as an American Anti-Slavery Society agent, arranging meetings, making speeches, putting up posters and distributing leaflets. When the Anthony family moved to Rochester in 1845, their farmhouse became a meeting place for abolitionists, including Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. By tracing our currency back to the colonial era, we can explore how American history has helped shape the way we design, issue, and process modern U.S. The first woman honored on a Canadian coin was Queen Elizabeth II, whose likeness first appeared on official currency the year after her accession, in 1953. Not surprisingly, Quakers freed their slaves in the 1700s and many activists in the abolitionist and women’s rights movements were Quakers. Coincidentally, Anthony herself became the first woman honored on a circulating U.S. The initiative was authorized by Congress earlier this year. It did not matter if you were a man or woman, black or white, every soul was equal in the eyes of God. The American Women Quarters Program is a four-year program, and until 2025, the program will introduce women on the tails of each coin. Quakers believed the inner light of God existed in every human. The Anthony Farm in Rochester, NY Frederick Douglass, ca.