Susan B. Anthony lived in this house for the forty most active years of her life, and it was the site of her arrest for voting in 1872 and her death in 1906. The house served as headquarters for the National Woman Suffrage Association and the Rochester Political Equality Club. Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association and campaigned to amend the U.S. Constitution to secure women's right to vote. As an abolitionist, she spoke, organized, petitioned, and faced physical danger in the campaign to end slavery in the United States, often joining her lifelong friend Frederick Douglass. She also called for equal educational opportunities for all and pressed schools, colleges, and universities to open their doors to women and former slaves. As a labor activist, she published The Revolution, a women's rights newspaper that promoted unions for women workers and equal pay for equal work.
