Susan Brownell Anthony was the first American activist who played a significant role in eliminating women's suffering in the United States. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. She was raised in a religious family with an activist tradition. At the age of 49, with a friend of hers, they inaugurate a new society called the National Woman's Suffrage Association; together they have worked for over fifty years. They distributed a weekly journal called "The Revolution" telling the movement of women suffrage for approximately two years. She traveled to other countries giving speeches, joined political and social parties. Not long she became the founder of the International Council of Woman, which brought international attention to women's suffrage.
The beginning of Anthony's lifelong career in reform all started when her father's business failed and family members moved to Rochester, New York in 1845. Anthony took part of head of the girls' division at Canajoharie Academy, which was her first paid position. As a child, Anthony has already flourished a strong moral scope; she used much of her time working on social causes. Anthony was soon devoted more to social issues that made her interested in pursuing temperance reform, since "her family believed drinking liquor was sinful."1 This belief leads her to joining the Daughters of Temperance in 1848, the first certified organization she participated in. During this moment, she had various indelible experiences by making her first public speech, and "was elected president of the Rochester branch of the Daughter of Temperance and raised money for the cause."2.
In 1851, Anthony was introduced by temperance advocate, Amelia Bloomer to Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Around that time Stanton was one of the leaders of the women's right movement. Anthony payed a visit to her first women's right convention in Syracuse, 1852.