Susan B. Anthony : The Causes Of Women's Rights Activists

In Frances D. Gage’s article “Reminiscences,” Gage conveys a graphic narrative of a speech that was delivered by ex-slave Sojourner Truth, at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1851. Sojourner's speech argues that women and colored folk can have the same voting rights as white men can. As president of the meeting, Gage recalls the words spoken by Sojourner on this issue. Sojourner proposed that women are as equal as men, based on the premise that she can do anything just as well as a man can. In “Reminiscences”, Frances D. Gage is effective at conveying women's voting rights by using ethos, pathos, and logos by recounting his experience at the convention.

In 1869, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, an organization devoted to gaining rights for women. Anthony made sure that Stanton was president as long as possible; Anthony served as vice president until 1892 when she became president of the NWSA

Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. She was brought up in a Quaker family with long activist traditions. Due to the fact that she was a woman, she was not allowed to speak at temperance rallies. With the experience that had come upon her and her friendship with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It led her to join the women's rights movement in 1852.

Susan Brownwell Anthony was a woman who started the women’s rights movement for the feminists who came after her. She was also a member of the anti- slavery movement and participated in many other organizations. Susan B. Anthony would define success as being able to help the people she cared about by joining multiple movements and even creating some of her own to protest for equal rights for all people.

Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams Massachusetts. Her parents are Daniel Anthony her father and Lucy Read her mother (Biography.com). Anthony was raised in a Quaker house(Biography.com). Her family thought drinking alcohol was a sin. (susanbanthonyhouse.org)

The Progressive Era was full of people wanting to change their surroundings and laws in

Susan Brownell Anthony was one of the greatest women in American history. Her story of trial shows the struggles of American women in the 19th and 20th centuries. Without her acts of courage, women may still not be able to vote. Anthony’s persistence and perseverance eventually pushed our government to add the 19th amendment the U.S. Constitution. Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15th, 1820 in the small town of Adams, Massachusetts as the 2nd child of 8 children born to Daniel and Lucy Read Anthony.

The crucial process of slavery was the biggest economic salvation in the United States for hundreds of years. With time, many evangelical Americans began to emphasize the struggling lives of slaves in order for them to be saved through the grace of their mighty God. In the early 1800s, the Second Great Awakening rose to power to acknowledge the slaves and their rights as children of God. During the Civil War (1861-1865), the Abolitionist Movement managed to abolish slavery through the 13th Amendment on December 6, 1865. Later, Congress ratified the 14th Amendment in 1868 that granted black people the same rights as white people in the nation. The statement, "the right to vote ... to any of

Some people would consider Spiderman, Batman and Superman to be “heroes”, but when you are referring to a “historical hero” most people would think of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin to be one. A historical hero is a famous person in history who played a crucial role in our society, impacted our lives and shape human progress. My historical hero is Susan B. Anthony because she was one of the dynamic forces of the women's suffrage movement; the struggle for the right of women to vote and run for office and is part of the overall women's right. Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts and died March 13, 1906 in Rochester, New York. She was brought up in a quaker family with a sense of activist traditions and early in her she developed a recognition of justice and love.

Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 and raised in very religious household. She first started off as teacher before she became and extravagant women that not just worked for herself but for many other women’s rights. Susan B. Anthony should be a historical figure due to the fact that she went through so much suffering. In which she fought for the women’s right to vote and as well as gender equality. Not only did she just fight for women’s right but as well to get rid of alcohol and did not support slavery by campaigning against them. People look down on her and despise her due to the reasoning that she voted illegally and took matter in to her own hands and was put into prison for it. Which cause women to get more hate and not receive their equal rights faster. Another reasoning people might not think she should be historical is because she said a racist comment. Despite all these things she dint just think of herself but for everyone. She never gave up and always kept writing and lecturing about equality which has helped every women have equal right and as well inspired many women that anything can be possible no matter their gender.

Among those who have led the battle to gain equal rights for women as well as all underprivileged people in the United States, Susan B. Anthony is second to none. She was born into a Quaker family in Adams, Massachusetts on February 15, 1820 and was raised with a zealous sense of the importance of supporting moral and social justice for all. Social activism was a family tradition practiced by her parents and all her siblings which she embraced at a very early age. Early on she was involved in the abolition of slavery and the temperance movement. A consummate organizer as well as a superb speaker, Susan B Anthony worked tirelessly from her youth until her death at the age of 86. She battled against an established political and social establishment

Pursuing early day women’s rights was a challenge. However, for black women, it was an uphill battle. Their challenges began while they laid in their menses, shackled on slave ships and beyond. The suffragists Nannie Helen Burroughs and the poet Frances Ellen Watkins Harper are not as well-known as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, but they made meaningful contributions to the women’s movement.

On February 15, 1820, Susan Brownell Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts. Seventeen years later, Anthony enrolled at Deborah Moulson’s Female Seminary in Philadelphia to further her education. She only attended it shortly before moving back to help her father pay off his debts. Then in 1845, Anthony and her family moved to a farm in Rochester, New York. Their family farm in Rochester became a popular spot for many abolitionists to meet, thus pushing her to become more active in the fight for equal rights for Blacks. Towards the end of the 1840s, while teaching at a school in Canajoharie, New York, she discovered that male teachers made ten dollars a month, while female teachers made a measly two dollars and fifty cents a month. After

Sojourner Truth’s speech, “Ain’t I a Woman?,” is a captivating argument discussing her views on the suffrage movement and the inequality of women. She was an inspiring African American woman who was a former slave. Truth is very well known for her speeches about slavery and human rights but she also played a role as a mother, activist, abolitionist, and preacher. Throughout this speech, Sojourner Truth includes figurative language such as repetition, imagery and allusions to appeal to pathos and create an emotional connection to the lack of women’s rights. Her use of forceful diction conveys how angry she was about women’s rights and showed great determination to make a change.

In, “Women’s Right to the Suffrage,” Susan B Anthony wants America to know how powerful women can be. Her goal is to persuade America that women should have the right to vote and it is a crime not to allow them to. This is shown through her speech’s ideas such as; expressing her right by voting, even though it was a “crime,” the Constitution includes all genders and not just men and finally, women are people too. This shows that women are a part of the civilization and should have the right to vote.