Editing Susan B. Anthony (section)

==Death and legacy==
Susan B. Anthony died at the age of 86 of heart failure and pneumonia in her home in [[Rochester, New York]], on March 13, 1906.<ref>{{cite news |title=Miss Susan B. Anthony Died This Morning; End Came to the Famous Woman Suffragist in Rochester. Enthusiastic to the Last Wished All Her Estate to Go to the Cause for Which She Labored – Her Deathbed Regret. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1906/03/13/archives/miss-susan-b-anthony-died-this-morning-end-came-to-the-famous-woman.html |access-date=February 16, 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=March 13, 1906}}</ref> She was buried at [[Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester]].<ref>Wilson, Scott. ''Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons'', 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Location 1369). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.</ref> At her birthday celebration in [[Washington, D.C.]], a few days earlier, Anthony had spoken of those who had worked with her for women's rights: "There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause—I wish I could name every one—but with such women consecrating their lives, failure is impossible!"<ref>Harper (1898–1908), Vol. 3, [https://archive.org/stream/lifeandworksusa02harpgoog#page/n355/mode/2up p. 1409]. According to Sherr (1995), p. 367, footnote 324, a variation of this statement appeared in several newspapers, but it also ends with "Failure is impossible".</ref> "Failure is impossible" quickly became a watchword for the women's movement.

Anthony did not live to see the achievement of women's suffrage at the national level, but she still expressed pride in the progress the women's movement had made. At the time of her death, women had achieved suffrage in Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and Idaho, and several larger states followed soon after. Legal rights for married women had been established in most states, and most professions had at least a few women members. 36,000 women were attending colleges and universities, up from zero a few decades earlier."<ref>Sherr (1995), pp. xxiv–xxv, 310.</ref> Two years before she died, Anthony said, "The world has never witnessed a greater revolution than in the sphere of woman during this fifty years".<ref>{{cite news|title=none|newspaper=New York Sun|date=February 21, 1904}} Quoted in Sherr (1995), p. xxvi.</ref>

Part of the revolution, in Anthony's view, was in ways of thinking. In a speech in 1889, she noted that women had always been taught that their purpose was to serve men, but "Now, after 40 years of agitation, the idea is beginning to prevail that women were created for themselves, for their own happiness, and for the welfare of the world."<ref>{{cite news|title=none|newspaper=The New York Times|date=August 31, 1889}} Quoted in Sherr (1995), p. 58.</ref> Anthony was sure that women's suffrage would be achieved, but she also feared that people would forget how difficult it was to achieve it, as they were already forgetting the ordeals of the recent past:

{{Quote box |width = 40% |quote=We shall someday be heeded, and when we shall have our amendment to the Constitution of the United States, everybody will think it was always so, just exactly as many young people think that all the privileges, all the freedom, all the enjoyments which woman now possesses always were hers. They have no idea of how every single inch of ground that she stands upon today has been gained by the hard work of some little handful of women of the past.|source=Susan B. Anthony, 1894<ref>Stanton, Anthony, Gage (1881–1922), Vol. 4, [https://archive.org/stream/historyofwomansu04stanuoft#page/222/mode/2up p. 223]</ref>
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Anthony's death was widely mourned. [[Clara Barton]], founder of the [[American Red Cross]], said just before Anthony's death, "A few days ago someone said to me that every woman should stand with bared head before Susan B. Anthony. 'Yes,' I answered, 'and every man as well.' ... For ages he has been trying to carry the burden of life's responsibilities alone... Just now it is new and strange and men cannot comprehend what it would mean but the change is not far away."<ref>Stanton, Anthony, Gage (1881–1922), Vol. 4, [https://archive.org/stream/historyofwomansu05stanuoft#page/154/mode/2up pp. 154–155].</ref>

In her history of the women's suffrage movement, [[Eleanor Flexner]] wrote, "If [[Lucretia Mott]] typified the moral force of the movement, if [[Lucy Stone]] was its most gifted orator and [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton|Mrs. Stanton]] its most outstanding philosopher, Susan Anthony was its incomparable organizer, who gave it force and direction for half a century."<ref>Flexner (1959), [https://books.google.com/books?id=VjEw6ZnVm1EC&pg=PA79 p. 79.]</ref>

The [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Nineteenth Amendment]], which prohibited the denial of suffrage because of sex, was colloquially known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.<ref>{{cite news|title=Senators to Vote on Suffrage Today; Fate of Susan B. Anthony Amendment Hangs in Balance on Eve of Final Test|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 26, 1918|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60F17F63E5511738DDDAF0A94D1405B888DF1D3}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History |last=Doig |first=Leslie L. | editor1-last=Smith |editor1-first=Bonnie G. |year=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-514890-9 |page=115 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=EFI7tr9XK6EC&pg=PA115 }}</ref> After it was ratified in 1920, the [[National American Woman Suffrage Association]], whose character and policies were strongly influenced by Anthony, was transformed into the [[League of Women Voters]], which is still an active force in U.S. politics.<ref>Sherr (1995), p. 328.</ref>

Anthony's papers are held in library collections of [[Harvard University]]<ref>[http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00169 "Susan B. Anthony Papers, 1815–1961: A Finding Aid"]. Harvard University. Retrieved June 1, 2017.</ref> and its [[Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study|Radcliffe Institute]],<ref>[https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/collection/susan-b-anthony Schlesinger Library] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923175028/https://www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/schlesinger-library/collection/susan-b-anthony |date=September 23, 2017 }}, [[Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study|Radcliffe Institute]], Harvard University. Retrieved June 1, 2017.</ref> [[Rutgers University]],<ref>[http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/ The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213161023/http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/ |date=February 13, 2020 }} at [[Rutgers University]]. Retrieved June 1, 2017.</ref> the [[Library of Congress]],<ref>[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/awrbc4/anthony.html Susan B. Anthony Collection] at the [[Library of Congress]]. Retrieved June 1, 2017.</ref> and [[Smith College]].<ref>[http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss129_main.html Anthony, Susan B.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607144009/http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss129_main.html |date=June 7, 2019 }}  Smith College. Retrieved June 1, 2017.</ref> She is the author of a 6 volume work ''[[History of Woman Suffrage]]'' (1881).