A birthday celebration for Anthony was a yearly tradition at the N.A.W.S.A.

The first recorded public birthday party for Anthony took place in New York City the same year that she was chosen for inclusion in the anthology "Eminent Women of the Age." She reflected on many years of conflict at the age of 50. In her journal, she wrote, "Fiftieth birthday!" Oh, what a struggle it was to achieve temperance, independence, and enfranchisement throughout a half-century!

Twenty years later, Anthony's allies in the suffrage and abolition movements planned a considerably larger birthday party for him. She was happy that the celebration in her honor, which took place in Washington, was also preceded by the National American Women's Suffrage Association, which was formed when the National Woman's Suffrage Association and the American Women's Suffrage Association, the two major women's suffrage organizations, merged. From that point on, a birthday celebration for Anthony was a yearly tradition at the N.A.W.S.A. conventions held in February.

Anthony resigned from her position as president of the N.A.W.S.A., which she had held for eight years, on the occasion of her 80th birthday in 1900. There were multiple birthday festivities planned for her at the organization's 1900 convention in Washington. Her portrait was added to that of other notable Americans in the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Anthony was honored at the Lafayette Opera House with a program that featured poetry, music, gifts, and greetings from many women's organizations, including Coralie Franklin Cook of the Colored Women's Association, who said of her: "Our children, and our children's children, will be taught to honor her memory, for they shall be told that she has always been in the vanguard of the immortal few who have stood for the great principle of human rights."

She gave her final public speech at her 86th birthday party, which the N.A.W.S.A. sponsored in 1906, just before she passed away. She acknowledged the efforts of many who had given their lives to the battle for women's suffrage and anticipated its unavoidable success. Failure is unthinkable with such ladies dedicating their lives to the cause, she claimed. "There have been others just as true and devoted to the cause - I wish I could name everyone."