She worked as a reporter for The Washington Star and completed a master's degree in political science in 1941 at American University.

Moving to Florida in the early 1950s, she worked as a journalist at the Key West Citizen, but her relationship with liberal causes and activists brought her to the attention of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

When Anthony divorced in 1960 and tried to move back to the United States, she was threatened with deportation by officials who claimed she had renounced her US citizenship.

[4] Unable to make a living writing plays and acting, he worked as a district manager for Dun & Bradstreet for 30 years and then in civil service until his retirement.

[1] She graduated magna cum laude in 1938 with a political science degree from the University of Rochester on a scholarship named after her great-aunt and namesake.

The following year, she joined the staff of The Washington Star and began writing articles on migrants' and women's issues for periodicals such as The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times Magazine.

[3] The following year, she took part in hearings on the bill sponsored by Florida Senator Claude Pepper proposing national legislation to abolish poll taxes.

Along with other activists including Virginia Durr and Lucy Randolph Mason, she supported the women's poll tax repeal movement.

Though the Pepper bill was not successful,[14] Anthony continued to support repeal of laws requiring poll taxes to vote and spoke on college campuses, such as Bryn Mawr, urging elimination of disenfranchisement statutes for several years.

[9][17] Her views on women's rights were "a very modern feminist vision" encompassing the intersectionality of inequality based on class, color, and race.

[24] Though many members were communists or part of the popular front, membership in the organization included a broad mix of liberal, middle-class women.

Among them, besides Anthony, were Eleanor Flexner, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Mary van Kleeck, Cornelia Bryce Pinchot.

[21] She served as the Congress delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women in 1948[3] and continued actively in the organization until it folded in 1950.

[26] Anthony and Collins divorced in 1948, and in February 1949, she married Clifford Thomas McAvoy, who was the New England Director of the Labor Committee of the Progressive Party.

[27] From 1949, Anthony had become the target of investigations by the House Un-American Activities Committee for her association with people who were suspected of being communist sympathizers, such as Ella Reeve Bloor and her husband Clifford McAvoy.

[10][11] Wanting to clear her name, she went to meet with the FBI and told them of her involvement in the pacifist movement and her support for Spanish loyalists, for housing desegregation, and for women's rights including childcare centers for working mothers.

[3][29] While fighting to regain her citizenship, Anthony underwent a religious conversion and joined the Roman Catholic Church.

[32] In 1979, she was invited to the White House to attend a reception hosted by First Lady Rosalynn Carter, upon the minting of the Susan B. Anthony dollar.

Anthony continued to be active on the lecture circuit throughout the 1980s and took part in the Seneca Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and Justice in 1983.

[3] Though she lived in Deerfield Beach, Anthony died from bone cancer at Hospice-By-The-Sea in Boca Raton on July 8, 1991.