"Join the union, girls, and together say, 'Equal Pay for Equal Work!'"

The movement she started lived on ~ suffragists continued to fight for the right to vote after Susan's death in 1906. Women did not win the right to vote for another 8 years, with the passage of the 19th Amendment. Individual U.S. states granted women the vote ~ although some would rescind it ~ including New Jersey, Wyoming + Utah. New Zealand, Azerbaijan, Britain {including some territorial islands and colonies}, Finland + Zimbabwe are among many countries preceding the United States in granting women's suffrage. Women are allowed to vote ~ officially, at least ~ in most countries, although Saudi Arabia and some full monarchies still do not have universal {or any} suffrage.

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The friendship between Susan and fellow suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (seated in photograph) began in 1851, and lasted until Elizabeth's death in 1902. Elizabeth introduced Susan to the women's suffrage movement, and together the two women cofounded the Women's National Loyal League in 1862, the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869, made hundreds of appearances and wrote countless articles and the History of Woman Suffrage. On Elizabeth's death in 1902, Susan wrote to her biographer and friend Ida Husted Harper, "it seems impossible—that the voice is hushed … How shall we ever make the world intelligent?" This photograph was probably taken sometime after 1880.

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