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It s Susan B Anthony Day Here s how women s suffrage changed the world

It’s Susan B. Anthony Day. Here’s how women’s suffrage changed the world. Bryan Schonfeld, Sam Winter-Levy A statue of women’s rights pioneers Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Sojourner Truth in Central Park during a snowstorm in New York City. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images) On Feb. 15, 1820, 201 years ago today, the famous American suffragist Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Mass. This year, her birthday follows the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which banned denying the right to vote “on account of sex.” In November 1920, just more than two months after the 19th Amendment’s ratification, millions of women cast their ballots for the first time.

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