What did Susan B. Anthony do?

Why this is the answer

Two answers are accepted for Susan B. Anthony: she fought for women's rights, or she fought for civil rights. Either one, in a few words, is all you need to say. Anthony was born in Massachusetts on February 15, 1820, and her public life was built on the idea that women should be treated as the equals of men. Her best-known cause was the vote, which she campaigned for openly, and she also pushed for equal treatment of women in the workplace. That is the "women's rights" answer. The "civil rights" answer comes from the other half of her work. In the decades before the Civil War, some Americans argued that slavery should be outlawed and that everyone in the country deserved civil rights. Frederick Douglass, who had escaped slavery himself, became an important leader of that cause through his speeches and books. Anthony agreed with him that slavery should be illegal and said so in public. So the two official answers don't describe two different careers. They are two sides of the same one. She did not live to see her main goal reached. The 19th Amendment, which forbids the United States or any state to deny citizens the vote because of their sex, passed Congress on June 4, 1919, and was ratified on August 18, 1920. Anthony had died fourteen years before it was adopted, yet it was widely known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. In 1979 she became the first woman whose portrait appeared on a circulating U.S. coin, the Susan B. Anthony dollar. When people stumble here, it is usually over the form rather than the facts. The question asks what she did, so lead with a verb: "She fought for women's rights." Claims like "she was the first woman to vote" or "she was elected to Congress" are not on the list at all. And don't second-guess "civil rights" because it sounds like it belongs to a later era. On this question it is a correct answer in its own right, since she stood up for enslaved people as well as for women. A date pairing can help: 1920 for the amendment that carried her name, and 1979, nearly sixty years later, for the dollar coin that carried her face.