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==Commemoration== ===Halls of Fame=== In 1950, Anthony was inducted into the [[Hall of Fame for Great Americans]]. A bust of her that was sculpted by [[Brenda Putnam]] was placed there in 1952.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |url=http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/HallofFame/onLineTour/browse.cfm?StartRow=70&BrowserStartRow=6 |title=The Hall of Fame for Great Americans – Face-to-Face Online Tour |publisher=Bcc.cuny.edu |access-date=October 28, 2017 |archive-date=October 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029013540/http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/HallofFame/onLineTour/browse.cfm?StartRow=70&BrowserStartRow=6 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Rubinstein">Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein, ''American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions'' (G.K. Hall, 1990), pp. 248–249.</ref> In 1973, Anthony was inducted into the [[National Women's Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/susan-b-anthony/ |title=Anthony, Susan B. – National Women's Hall of Fame |publisher=Womenofthehall.org |access-date=October 28, 2017}}</ref> ===Artwork=== [[File:Hester_Jeffrey.jpg|thumb|right|upright| [[Hester C. Jeffrey]], who spoke at Anthony's funeral and arranged the creation of a stained glass window as Anthony's first memorial.]] The first memorial to Anthony was established by African Americans. In 1907, a year after Anthony's death, a stained-glass window was installed at the [[African Methodist Episcopal Zion]] church in Rochester that featured her portrait and the words "Failure is Impossible", a quote from her that had become a watchword for the women's suffrage movement. It was installed through the efforts of [[Hester C. Jeffrey]], the president of the Susan B. Anthony Club, an organization of African American women in Rochester.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://winningthevote.org/biographies/hester-jeffrey/|title=Hester Jeffrey |work=Western New York Suffragists |publisher=Rochester Regional Library Council |access-date=February 26, 2025}}</ref> Speaking at the window's dedication, Jeffrey said, "Miss Anthony had stood by the Negroes when it meant almost death to be a friend of the colored people."<ref>The Rochester ''Democrat & Chronicle'' newspaper, August 1907, as quoted in ''17 Madison Street'', the newsletter of the Susan B. Anthony Museum and House, [http://susanbanthonyhouse.org/2014august.pdf August 2014] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171114093258/http://susanbanthonyhouse.org/2014august.pdf |date=November 14, 2017 }}, p. 2.</ref> This church had a history of involvement in issues of social justice: in 1847, [[Frederick Douglass]] printed the first editions of ''The North Star'', his abolitionist newspaper, in its basement.<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.libraryweb.org/~rochhist/v21_1959/v21i4.pdf#page=7 |title=Lights and Shadows in Local Negro History| author=Blake McKelvey|year=1959|journal=Rochester History | volume=XXI | issue=4 | page=7|publisher= Rochester Public Library |access-date=November 11, 2017}}</ref> [[File:Marble statue of three suffragists by Adelaide Johnson in the Capitol crypt, Washington, D.C..jpg|thumb|left|upright|''[[Portrait Monument]]'', a statue of Anthony, [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], and [[Lucretia Mott]] in the [[U.S. Capitol rotunda|rotunda]] of the [[United States Capitol Building|U.S. Capitol Building]]. Created by [[Adelaide Johnson]] in 1920.]] Anthony is commemorated along with [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]] and [[Lucretia Mott]] in the ''[[Portrait Monument]]'' sculpture by [[Adelaide Johnson]] at the [[United States Capitol]], unveiled in 1921. Originally kept on display in the crypt of the US Capitol, the sculpture was moved to its current location and more prominently displayed in the rotunda in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/rotunda/suffrage.cfm|title=Portrait Monument to Suffrage Pioneers | AOC}}</ref> [[File:Leila Usher with bas-relief of Susan B. Anthony.jpg|thumb|right|upright| [[Leila Usher]], next to the bas-relief of Susan B. Anthony she donated to the [[National Woman's Party]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Gift for National Woman's Party |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89058337/1922-05-05/ed-1/seq-3/ |work=The Dickson County Herald |date=May 5, 1922|page=3}}</ref>]] In 1922, sculptor [[Leila Usher]] donated a bas-relief of Susan B. Anthony to the [[National Woman's Party]], which was installed at their headquarters near [[Washington, DC.]]<ref>{{cite news |title=Gift for National Woman's Party |url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89058337/1922-05-05/ed-1/seq-3/ |work=The Dickson County Herald |date=May 5, 1922}}</ref> Usher was also responsible for the creation of a similar bronze medallion donated to Bryn Mawr College in 1901.<ref>{{cite web |title=Susan B. Anthony Medal |url=http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/exhibits/suffrage/sbabronze.html |website=Bryn Mawr College |access-date=December 22, 2018 |archive-date=October 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019214420/http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/exhibits/suffrage/sbabronze.html |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Suffrage Cause and Bryn Mawr |url=http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/exhibits/suffrage/speakers1.html#sbabronze |website=Bryn Mawr College |access-date=December 22, 2018 |archive-date=April 27, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427030911/http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/exhibits/suffrage/speakers1.html#sbabronze |url-status=dead }}</ref> A sculpture by Ted Aub commemorating the introduction of Anthony to [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]] by [[Amelia Bloomer]] on May 12, 1851, was unveiled In 1999.<ref name="freethought-trail1">{{cite web |url=http://www.freethought-trail.org/site.php?By=Cause&Page=7&Site=5 |title=The Freethought Trail |publisher=The Freethought Trail |access-date=October 28, 2017 |archive-date=October 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029013608/http://www.freethought-trail.org/site.php?By=Cause&Page=7&Site=5 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="intro">{{cite web|url=http://www2.hws.edu/article-id-16803/ |title=Aub Discusses Commemorative Sculpture – Hobart and William Smith Colleges |publisher=.hws.edu |date=July 17, 2013 |access-date=October 28, 2017}}</ref> Called "When Anthony Met Stanton", it consists of life-size bronze statues of the three women near Van Cleef Lake in [[Seneca Falls, New York|Seneca Falls]], New York, where the introduction occurred.<ref name="intro"/><ref name="freethought-trail1"/> In 2001, the [[Cathedral of St. John the Divine]] in Manhattan, one of the world's largest, added a sculpture honoring Anthony and three other heroes of the twentieth century: [[Martin Luther King Jr.]], [[Albert Einstein]], and [[Mahatma Gandhi]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Morningside Heights-raised sculptor Chris Pelletierri carves niche despite economy |first=Elizabeth |last=Lazarowitz |newspaper=[[New York Daily News]] |date=March 25, 2011 |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/morningside-heights-raised-sculptor-chris-pelletierri-carves-niche-economy-article-1.119717 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107161228/http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/uptown/morningside-heights-raised-sculptor-chris-pelletierri-carves-niche-economy-article-1.119717 |archive-date=January 7, 2014 |access-date=August 25, 2020}}</ref> An installation artwork by [[Judy Chicago]] called ''[[The Dinner Party]]'', first exhibited in 1979, features a place setting for Anthony.<ref>[https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings Place Settings]. Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved on August 6, 2015.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/tour_and_home/|title=Tour and Home|website=www.brooklynmuseum.org}}</ref> A bronze sculpture of a locked ballot box flanked by two pillars marks the place where Anthony voted in 1872 in defiance of laws that prohibited women from voting. Called the 1872 Monument, it was dedicated in August 2009, on the 89th anniversary of the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Nineteenth Amendment]]. Leading away from the 1872 Monument is the Susan B. Anthony Trail, which runs beside the 1872 Café, named for the year of Anthony's vote. Near the Susan B. Anthony Museum and House is the "Let's Have Tea" sculpture of Anthony and [[Frederick Douglass]] created by Pepsy Kettavong.<ref>{{cite magazine|author=Contributed by AaronNetsky |url=https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/1872-monument |title=1872 Monument – Rochester, New York |magazine=Atlas Obscura |access-date=May 17, 2019}}</ref> On February 15, 2020, [[Google]] celebrated Anthony's 200th birthday with a [[Google Doodle]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://doodles.google/doodle/susan-b-anthonys-200th-birthday/|title=Susan B. Anthony's 200th Birthday|website=Google|date=February 15, 2020}}</ref> ===Landmarks=== Anthony's home in [[Rochester, New York|Rochester]] is a [[National Historic Landmark]] called the [[Susan B. Anthony House|National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/places/anthonyhouse.htm|title=Susan B. Anthony House|date=September 11, 2007|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref> The [[Anthony House (Adams, Massachusetts)|house of her birth]]<ref>{{NRISref|2008a|dateform=mdy}}</ref> in [[Adams, Massachusetts|Adams]], Massachusetts, and her [[Susan B. Anthony Childhood House|childhood home]]<ref>{{NRISref|2009a|dateform=mdy}}</ref> in [[Battenville, New York|Battenville]], New York, are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]]. In 2007, the new [[Frederick Douglass–Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge]] replaced the old Troup–Howell Bridge as the conveyor of expressway traffic on Interstate 490 through downtown Rochester.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dot.ny.gov/portal/page/portal/news/press-releases/2007/2007-10-05 |title=Frederick Douglass–Susan B. Anthony Bridge Shines in Bridge Construction Competitions|date=October 5, 2007|work=Press Releases|publisher=New York State Department of Transportation|access-date=June 1, 2023 }}</ref> ===Documentary projects=== The [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers]] project was an academic undertaking to collect and document all available materials written by [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]] and Anthony. The project began in 1982 and has since been ended.<ref>"Making It Happen" by Ann D. Gordon in "Project News: Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony," [http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/2012%20Project%20News%20newsletter.pdf Fall 2012], p. 5. Retrieved March 17, 2014.</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony|last=Ward|first= Geoffrey C.|year=1999|publisher=Alfred Knopf|location= New York|isbn=0-375-40560-7|page=[https://archive.org/details/notforourselvesa00ward/page/n258 241]|chapter=A Note about Contributors|url=https://archive.org/details/notforourselvesa00ward|url-access=registration}}</ref> In 1999, [[Ken Burns]] and others produced the television documentary ''[[Not for Ourselves Alone|Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony]]''.<ref>{{cite web | title =Not For Ourselves Alone | website = [[PBS]] | url = https://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/ | access-date = August 18, 2009}}</ref> ===Banknotes, coins and stamps=== [[File:Susan B Anthony 3c 1936 issue.JPG|thumb|upright|right| [[Commemorative stamp]] of Susan B. Anthony issued in 1936.<ref name=Anthonystamp/>]] The US Post Office issued its first postage stamp honoring Anthony in 1936 on the 16th anniversary of the ratification of the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|19th Amendment]], which ensured women's right to vote.<ref name=Anthonystamp>{{cite web|title=Susan B. Anthony Issue|publisher=Smithsonian National Postal Museum|access-date=September 25, 2013|url=http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=1&cmd=1&tid=2033174}}</ref> A second stamp honoring Anthony was issued in April 1958.<ref>{{cite web|title=Susan B. Anthony Issue|publisher=Smithsonian National Postal Museum|access-date=May 25, 2014|url=http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=145444|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140525235245/http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=145444|url-status=dead|archive-date=May 25, 2014}}</ref> [[File:Anthony dollar coin.jpg|thumb|left|[[Susan B. Anthony dollar|U.S. dollar coin with image of Susan. B. Anthony]]]] In 1979, the [[United States Mint]] began issuing the [[Susan B. Anthony dollar]] coin, the first US coin to honor a female citizen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usmint.gov/historianscorner/?action=coinDetail&id=347|title=Susan B. Anthony Dollar: 1979–1999|publisher=U.S. Mint|access-date=January 23, 2014}}</ref> The [[United States Department of the Treasury|US Treasury Department]] announced on April 20, 2016, that an image of Anthony would appear on the back of a newly designed $10 bill along with [[Lucretia Mott]], [[Sojourner Truth]], [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]] and [[Alice Paul]]. The original plan was for a woman to appear on the front of the $10 bill, with Anthony under consideration for that position. The final plan, however, calls for [[Alexander Hamilton]], the first [[US Secretary of the Treasury]], to retain his current position there. Designs for new $5, $10 and $20 bills will be unveiled in 2020 in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of American women winning the right to vote via the [[Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|19th Amendment]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl0436.aspx |title= Treasury Secretary Lew Announces Front of New $20 to Feature Harriet Tubman, Lays Out Plans for New $20, $10 and $5 |date=April 20, 2016| publisher=Dept. of the Treasury |access-date=December 11, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/04/20/report-lew-considered-anthony-10-bill/83274530/ |title=Anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman to replace Jackson on the front of the $20 bill |work=USA Today|first=Gregory |last=Korte|date=April 20, 2016 |access-date=October 28, 2017}}</ref>{{update inline|date=March 2023}} ===Names of awards and organizations=== Since 1970, the Susan B. Anthony Award is given annually by the New York City chapter of the [[National Organization for Women]] to honor "grassroots activists dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls in New York City."<ref>{{cite web |last=Loo |first=Cindy |url=http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/the-33rd-susan-b-anthony-awards |title=The 33rd Susan B. Anthony Awards | Women and Hollywood |publisher=Blogs.indiewire.com |date=September 1, 2012 |access-date=August 20, 2015 |archive-date=October 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012004937/http://blogs.indiewire.com/womenandhollywood/the-33rd-susan-b-anthony-awards |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://nownyc.org/susan-b-anthony-awards/ |title=Susan B. Anthony Awards |publisher=Now-Nyc |date=October 30, 2014 |access-date=August 20, 2015}}</ref> [[New York Radical Feminists]], founded in 1969, was organized into small cells or "brigades" named after notable feminists of the past. The [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton|Stanton]]-Anthony Brigade was led by [[Anne Koedt]] and [[Shulamith Firestone]].<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/04/15/death-of-a-revolutionary |title=Death of a Revolutionary |last1=Faludi |first1=Susan |date=April 15, 2013 |magazine= [[The New Yorker]]|access-date= October 21, 2016}}</ref><!-- from [[Anne Koedt]] page --> In 1971, [[Zsuzsanna Budapest]] founded the Susan B. Anthony Coven #1 – the first feminist, women-only, witches' coven.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://susanbanthonycoven.com/membership/ |title=Membership – Dianic Tradition – Susan B. Anthony Coven |publisher=Susanbanthonycoven.com |access-date=November 5, 2018 |archive-date=November 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105160521/http://susanbanthonycoven.com/membership/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date= |title=Z Budapest – Dianic Wicca – Dianic Witch – Women's Spirituality Movement – Lesbian Pride |url=http://lesbian-pride.com/z.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090717012012/http://lesbian-pride.com/z.html |archive-date=July 17, 2009 |access-date=March 7, 2023 |website=Lesbian Pride}}</ref><ref name="Witchcraft Today 1999">''Witchcraft Today: An Encyclopedia of Wiccan and Neopagan Traditions'' by James R. Lewis ABC-CLIO (1999)</ref><ref name="Pagan Census 2003">''Voices from the Pagan Census: A National Survey of Witches and Neo-Pagans in the United States'' by Helen A. Berger, Evan A. Leach and Leigh S. Shaffer. University of South Carolina Press (2003)</ref> The [[Susan B. Anthony List]] is a [[non-profit]] organization that seeks to reduce and ultimately end abortion in the U.S.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Crisis |title=Pro-Life Women for Congress |last=Sadler |first=Joanne |pages=30–33 |year=1997 |volume=15 |number=1 |publisher=Brownson Institute}}</ref> ===Other=== [[File:Susan B. Anthony Gravestone.jpg|thumb|upright|right| Susan B. Anthony's gravestone with “I voted” stickers on it]] [[Susan B. Anthony Day]] is a commemorative holiday to celebrate the birth of Anthony and [[women's suffrage in the United States]]. The holiday is February 15—Anthony's birthday.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/units/Byrnes-celebrations/SUSANB.HTML |title=Susan B. Anthony Day |first=Holly |last=Matthews |publisher=TeacherLINK @ Utah State University |access-date=March 29, 2010 |archive-date=November 12, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112044408/http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLresources/units/Byrnes-celebrations/SUSANB.HTML |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2016, [[Lovely Warren]], the mayor of Rochester, put a red, white and blue sign next to Anthony's grave on the day after [[Hillary Clinton]] obtained the nomination at the [[Democratic National Convention]]. The sign stated, "Dear Susan B., we thought you might like to know that for the first time in history, a woman is running for president representing a major party. 144 years ago, your illegal vote got you arrested. It took another 48 years for women to finally gain the right to vote. Thank you for paving the way."<ref name="nydailynews1">{{cite news|last=Salinger |first=Tobias |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/susan-b-anthony-grave-decorated-sign-article-1.2730071 |title=Susan B. Anthony's grave decorated with 'thank you' sign |newspaper=NY Daily News |date=2016 |access-date=July 30, 2016}}</ref> The city of Rochester put pictures of the message on Twitter and requested that residents go to Anthony's grave to sign it.<ref name="nydailynews1"/>
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