Topic > Research Paper on Susan B Anthony - 1178

Anthony never stopped fighting for women's suffrage. In 1905 she met with President Theodore Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., to introduce an amendment to give women the right to vote. Anthony died the following year, on March 13, 1906, at age 86, of heart failure and pneumonia at his home in Rochester, New York. At his birthday party a few days earlier, Anthony had one last thing to say to those who had fought alongside him for women's rights: "There were others equally true and devoted to the cause - I wish I could name them all one – but with these women who dedicate their lives, failure is impossible!" “To think that I fought hard for more than 60 years for a little freedom, and then to die without it, seems so cruel to me.” (Harper) (On This Day)"Failure is impossible" quickly became a motto for the women's movement. Fourteen years after Susan B. Anthony's death, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was passed, giving all adult women the right to vote. In recognition of her dedication and hard work, the U.S. Department of the Treasury placed Anthony's portrait on dollar coins in 1979, making her the first woman to be so honored. (National women's suffrage