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unusual facts about Susan B. Anthony dollar


Susan B. Anthony dollar

The reverse commemorates the Apollo 11 moon landing with an image of the mission insignia, a design recycled from the earlier Eisenhower Dollar.


Adelaide Johnson

They were wed by a woman minister, and her bridesmaids were the busts she did of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; however, the marriage ended after twelve years.

Annie Bidwell

While Annie and John Bidwell resided in the mansion, they were hosts to many prominent figures of their era, including: President Rutherford B. Hayes, General William T. Sherman, Susan B. Anthony, Frances Willard, Governor Leland Stanford, John Muir, and Asa Gray.

Betty Millard

Alongside Nora Stanton Barney, Haley Douglass, and Susan B. Anthony, Millard was a member of the Congress of American Women (CAW), an affiliated group of the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF).

Daniel Bigelow

Suffragist Susan B. Anthony visited Olympia to promote the cause and dined with the Bigelows at their home.

Elmina Shepard Taylor

In 1888, Taylor and others met with Susan B. Anthony in Seneca Falls, New York and participated in the founding of the National Council of Women, an organization dedicated to promoting the rights of women.

Gabrielle Kurlander

In 2007, Kurlander starred as Susan B. Anthony in Backstage: A Love-Hate Relationship of the Women’s Movement.

Gold and Fizdale

This lunch ended with Auric and Tailleferre taking the score of Thomson's "The Mother of Us All", which Thomson had given as a gift, turning it upside down on the piano and having Poulenc singing all of the roles (including Susan B. Anthony) in nonsense English syllables which were supposedly an imitation of Gertrude Stein's Libretto while Tailleferre and Auric improvised a four-hands version of Thomson's score.

Harriet May Mills

Mills was a friend and respected associate of the leading suffragists of the day -- Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Helen Barrett Montgomery

In 1893, she joined with Susan B. Anthony, the activist for civil rights who was nearly 40 years older, in forming a new chapter of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union (WEIU) in Rochester.

Herstory of Dance

The rest of the study group try to correct her, pointing out that she may have meant Susan B. Anthony.

John Bidwell

Some of the guests who visited Bidwell Mansion were President Rutherford B. Hayes, General William T. Sherman, Susan B. Anthony, Frances Willard, Governor Leland Stanford, John Muir, Joseph Dalton Hooker and Asa Gray.

Josephine Brawley Hughes

At the national convention of suffrage of that year, Susan B. Anthony, a friend of Brawley Hughes, grabbed him and named him the "suffrage knight of Arizona".

Lucille Benson

During the show's first season (1980–1981), Benson played "Lilly Sinclair," the manager of the Susan B. Anthony Hotel where two young men (Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari) dressed as women to take advantage of the dirt-cheap rent.

Miss Lucy had a baby

The variants including a woman with an alligator purse urging the baby's mother to vote have been seen as a reference to Susan B. Anthony, an American suffragette.

Onward Victoria

Its cast of characters includes Cornelius Vanderbilt, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, restaurateur Charlie Delmonico, and Henry Ward Beecher, with whom Woodhull is linked in a fictional romance that leads to the minister being tried for alienation of affections.

Penny Colman

Her latest book, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship that Changed History due for release March 2011, continues the effort.

Reed Opera House and McCornack Block Addition

A number of notable performers made appearances, including local celebrity Hallie Parrish Hinges, artist/political cartoonist Thomas Nast, Susan B. Anthony, Mark Twain, presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and Benjamin Harrison and John Philip Sousa's band.

Sarah F. Norton

With Susan B. Anthony, Norton campaigned for the admission of women at the Cornell University, and she received the support of its founder, Ezra Cornell.

Skipping-rope rhyme

It is also possible that "the lady with the alligator purse" in the lulu/lucy/Susie rhymes is a direct reference to U.S. suffragette Susan B. Anthony who was known for this trademark handbag.

Susan B. Anthony abortion dispute

SBA List president Marjorie Dannenfelser published her response to Sherr and Gordon, saying that their conclusion "that abortion was nowhere on Anthony's radar" was "unfounded on many levels".

The Mother of Us All

It chronicles the life of Susan B. Anthony, one of the major figures in the fight for women's suffrage in the United States.

Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States

1872: Susan B. Anthony registers and votes in Rochester, New York, arguing that the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution gives her that right.


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