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1936 3c Susan B. Anthony, Purple
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U.S. #784
1936 3¢ Susan B. Anthony
Issue Date: August 26, 1936
First City: Washington, DC
Quantity Issued: 269,522,200
Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, the daughter of a Quaker abolitionist family that instilled in her a strong sense of social justice from an early age. She went on to co-found the National Woman Suffrage Association and dedicated much of her life to the fight for women's right to vote. In 1872, Anthony was arrested after casting a ballot in a presidential election, a deliberate act of defiance meant to challenge laws that denied women the right to vote.
Anthony's decades long partnership with fellow suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton proved central to building the momentum that eventually secured voting rights for American women. The two worked together for roughly fifty years, organizing campaigns, publishing writings, and building the movement that would ultimately succeed in changing the Constitution. Neither woman lived to see that victory, as Anthony died in 1906, fourteen years before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.
This stamp was issued on August 26, 1936, in Washington, D.C., timed to coincide with the sixteenth anniversary of the amendment's ratification. Because the Nineteenth Amendment is often referred to as the Anthony Amendment in recognition of her decades of work, the date carried particular significance for honoring her legacy. The stamp gave the Post Office an opportunity to recognize a woman whose persistence helped reshape American democracy, even though she did not live to cast a legal vote herself.
U.S. #784
1936 3¢ Susan B. Anthony
Issue Date: August 26, 1936
First City: Washington, DC
Quantity Issued: 269,522,200
Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, the daughter of a Quaker abolitionist family that instilled in her a strong sense of social justice from an early age. She went on to co-found the National Woman Suffrage Association and dedicated much of her life to the fight for women's right to vote. In 1872, Anthony was arrested after casting a ballot in a presidential election, a deliberate act of defiance meant to challenge laws that denied women the right to vote.
Anthony's decades long partnership with fellow suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton proved central to building the momentum that eventually secured voting rights for American women. The two worked together for roughly fifty years, organizing campaigns, publishing writings, and building the movement that would ultimately succeed in changing the Constitution. Neither woman lived to see that victory, as Anthony died in 1906, fourteen years before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.
This stamp was issued on August 26, 1936, in Washington, D.C., timed to coincide with the sixteenth anniversary of the amendment's ratification. Because the Nineteenth Amendment is often referred to as the Anthony Amendment in recognition of her decades of work, the date carried particular significance for honoring her legacy. The stamp gave the Post Office an opportunity to recognize a woman whose persistence helped reshape American democracy, even though she did not live to cast a legal vote herself.
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