Susan B Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was born in February of 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, and was raised in a Quaker family where women were thought to be equal with men. After teaching school for fifteen years, Anthony got involved in the temperance movement. She was also involved in anti-slavery movement, but because she was a female, she was not allowed to speak publicly and that fueled her into becoming a woman’s suffrage leader.
After meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851, their partnership was a huge part of the movement for over 50 years. She and Stanton were against the 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution for not including women. She published “The Revolution”, edited by Stanton, and had to lecture for six years to pay off it’s cost of publishing.
In 1872, Anthony was arrested for voting and, of course, was tried and convicted. You can listen to her trial testimony here. She led a women’s protest at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial delivering the “Declaration of Rights” written by Stanton and Gage. With the help of Stanton and Gage, she wrote and published the “History of Woman Suffrage”. Some called her “The Napoleon of the woman’s rights movement,” as she lobbied yearly before Congress.
Anthony remained involved in the woman’s movement until her death in 1906, about fourteen years before women received the right to vote.
Susan B. Anthony was born in February of 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, and was raised in a Quaker family where women were thought to be equal with men. After teaching school for fifteen years, Anthony got involved in the temperance movement. She was also involved in anti-slavery movement, but because she was a female, she was not allowed to speak publicly and that fueled her into becoming a woman’s suffrage leader.
After meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1851, their partnership was a huge part of the movement for over 50 years. She and Stanton were against the 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution for not including women. She published “The Revolution”, edited by Stanton, and had to lecture for six years to pay off it’s cost of publishing.
In 1872, Anthony was arrested for voting and, of course, was tried and convicted. You can listen to her trial testimony here. She led a women’s protest at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial delivering the “Declaration of Rights” written by Stanton and Gage. With the help of Stanton and Gage, she wrote and published the “History of Woman Suffrage”. Some called her “The Napoleon of the woman’s rights movement,” as she lobbied yearly before Congress.
Anthony remained involved in the woman’s movement until her death in 1906, about fourteen years before women received the right to vote.