Susan Brownell Anthony : The Fight For Equal Rights

Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton knew that they were being discriminated against because of their gender, and they refused to take it. "In 1869, however, a rift developed among feminists over the proposed 15th Amendment, which gave the vote to black men. Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and others refused to endorse the amendment because it did not give women the ballot." (Grolier). Stanton and Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association to work for suffrage on the federal level and to press for more extensive institutional changes, such as the granting of property rights to married women. (Grolier)Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), one of the main leaders in the women's rights movement, she worked for over 50 years to help women achieve the right to vote. She gave speeches to make her views known to everyone. On January 18, 1892, she spoke before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary. The speech was highly favorable, both within and outside the woman suffrage movement. (Solitude of Self)Susan B. Anthony registered and voted in the 1872 election in Rochester, NY. As planned, she was arrested (Susan B. Anthony Petition)

Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. She was the second of eight children in her family. In the early 1800's girls were not allowed an education. Susan's father, Daniel, believed in equal treatment for boys and girls and allowed her to receive her education from a private boarding school in Philadelphia. At the age of seven her

“It took 400 years after the declaration of independence was signed and 50 years after black men were given voting rights before women were treated as full American citizens and able to vote.” A women named Susan B. Anthony was one of those women struggling to be the same as mankind. Susan B. Anthony worked helped form women’s way to the 19th amendment. Anthony was denied an opportunity to speak at a convention because she was a woman. She then realized that no one would take females seriously unless they had the right to vote. Soon after that she became the founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. In 1872, she voted in the presidential election illegally and then arrested with a hundred dollar fine she never paid.” I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.”(Anthony) When Susan B. Anthony died on March 13, 1906, women still didn’t have the right to vote. 14 years after her death, the 19th amendment was passed. In honor of Anthony her portrait was put on one dollar coins in

In attempt to be able to change laws and allowing the married women to own their own property, Stanton gave some public speeches and had spoken to members of the New York Legislature. The Women’s rights convention was on july 19th-20th and was located in Seneca Falls, New York (Adams, Page 17). At Least 40 of the 300 people that had attended this, were none other than men (Adams, Page 17). One of those men was Frederick Douglas, Douglas was a former slave and an abolitionist. He was with the argument to give women the rights that they needed. He had stated that “without women, they would have no way of protecting their rights or to make changes in the laws (Adams, Page 17).” Sixty-eight women and thirty-two men had signed the declaration at the end of the convention (Adams, Page 17). Susan B. Anthony kept the women’s movement moving the right direction. Anthony also went around the country giving speeches that were written by Stanton. She was a very dedicated person when it came to problems like this.

Anthony was an activist for women’s suffrage and equal rights for all throughout the mid 1800s and early 1900s. Early in her life, Anthony worked as an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society, for which she regularly held meetings and distributed information to influence others in supporting the abolishment of slavery. Following the addition of the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution, Anthony published a newspaper, The Revolution, promoting an eight-hour work day and equal pay for women. Lastly, up until the Nineteenth Amendment was made to the U.S. constitution, Susan. B. Anthony campaigned for women’s rights, specifically the right to vote and therefore equally contribute to American government. In protesting for topics such as women’s suffrage, race equality, and equal pay for equal work, Anthony effectively stood up for what she and those who followed her believed

Susan B. Anthony inspired to fight for women’s right while camping against alcohol..along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton also an activist, Anthony and Stanton founded the NWSA . Which helped the two women to go around and produced The Revolution, a weekly publication that lobbied for women’s rights.She also went on saying that if women ever wanted to get reaction men had…only thing stopping them,..having voting rights. An american social reformer and women’s right activist who played a pivotal role in the women’s suffrage movement, also a teacher who aggregate and compare about nature. She gave the “Women’s Rights to the Suffrage” giving outside the jail she was going to be held in, she gave this speech in person in 1873 and her audience were mostly white women that want virtues like men. Also men that wanted to put women in their place and friends of her and fellow citizens. Her main points are that women needed power that men had. Growing up in a quaker household she knew that women needed honor as men just like slaves experience getting their freedom. In Women’s right to suffrage Susan B. Anthony uses tone, reparation,and logos which dematices why women should have equal morality and voting abilities as men.

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 created many organizations to help women’s suffrage. In 1866, together abolitionist, such as Anthony, and Republican allies, they formed the American Equal Rights Association (Garland 61). This campaign would eventually lead up to the demanding that change of the United States Constitution. Anthony along with other activists created the National American Women’s Suffrage Association (McGill 2). This association was created in response to whether the women’s movement should support the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Throughout their lives Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked tirelessly to bring about various social and political changes. From abolition, and temperance, to the varying long denied rights of women throughout the country; from divorce rights, guardianship of children, equal pay and control of earnings, property rights, education, to the vote. Together they created the National Women’s Suffrage Association, the Women’s State Temperance Society, the Women’s National Loyal League, wrote and published their own newspaper titled The Revolution, lectured across the country and lobbied for equal rights, with a focus on women’s rights.

On February 15, 1820, Susan was born to Daniel and Lucy Anthony, in the town of Adams, Massachusetts. She was brought up in a Quaker family with long activist traditions. Quakers, such as that her family, believed that everyone should be treated equally. Anthony was second oldest of eight children,

In 1873 Suzan B. Anthony led the women to go up to the polls to cast votes as a form of protest. Their plan was to go to the polls, get turned away, then sue on behalf of the fourteenth amendment which equally protected them. To their dismay, Anthony was not turned away but instead was

Anthony’s speech on women's right to vote left a lasting impact on many people's lives and society, America today would not be what it is without her. Anthony’s speech brought many good points by proving that women are humans too. She says after quoting the preamble to the constitution,”It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.” By bringing the law in her speech she proved that she was educated and didn’t need a man to make choices for her. Anthony's speech was not directed at people who were ‘indifferent’ but men who had made their minds up hundreds of years ago. (Anthony,

She was refused permission to speak at the Capitol and Smithsonian in Washington. She began her New York State campaign for woman suffrage in Mayville, Chatauqua County, speaking and traveling alone. In 1863, Anthony and Stanton wrote the "Appeal to the Women of the Republic”, which was a letter asking women to sign a petition to help end slavery. They believed that if they were able to get enough signatures, they would be listened to.

In E. Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony’s letter,“Petition to End Slavery”, the authors write about the entire abolition of slavery. Stanton and Anthony discuss how women should sign a petition to end slavery because the right to petition is one of their few political powers. They use an ardent and somewhat threatening tone to convince women to exercise this right, reminding them of their limited political power. The authors write “Women, you cannot vote or fight for your country. Your only way to be a power in the Government is the exercise of this one, sacred, Constitutional ‘RIGHT OF PETITION;’ and we ask you to use it now to the utmost”(Petition to End Slavery). With this statement, they are explicitly asking women to effortlessly exercise

Susan B. Anthony played a huge role in the woman 's suffrage, she had traveled around the country to give speeches, circulate petitions, and organize local woman 's rights organization. Her family moved to Rochester, New York in 1845 and they became active in the antislavery movement. The antislavery Quakers met at their farm almost every Sunday, where Fredrick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison sometimes joined. Susan was working as a teacher and became involved in the teacher 's union when she discovered that male teachers had a monthly salary of S10.00, while the female teachers earned $2.50 a month. Her sister and parents both attended the 1848 Rochester Woman 's Rights Convention held on August 2. Her experience with the teacher 's union, antislavery, and Quaker upbringing, made her realize that it was time for a career in woman 's rights reform to grow.