An anti-slavery activist, a leader of American women’s suffrage, and a staunch opponent of abortion — wherever injustice was manifest, Susan B. Anthony was drawn to fight on the side of those marginalized and disenfranchised.

Born into a Quaker family in 1820, Anthony became an avid abolitionist by the age of 17. In 1863, she and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the abolitionist Women’s Loyal National League. Under her guidance, the League conducted the largest petition drive in United States history up to that time, collecting nearly 400,000 signatures in support of ending slavery.