SOURCE: "Exponent of Woman's Rights: Susan B. Anthony," in Women Who Led the Way: Eight Pioneers for Equal Rights, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1959, pp. 27-58.

In the following essay, Boynick discusses Anthony's experiences as a political figure.

Her name is Susan Brownell Anthony and she looks out upon the world from a monument in the National Capitol in Washington. Washington is a good place for her to be. Things happen there.

Things like the adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution—the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, it was called—which gave women the vote in 1920.

Like President Franklin D. Roosevelt's appointment of Frances Perkins to be Secretary of Labor—the first woman Cabinet officer.

Or like the announcement of the Department of Labor two decades later that women had demonstrated they could do any work men could, because women were engaged in all 446 occupations listed by the...