The Willed Woman By Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony, a women’s rights supporter, knew exactly what she believed in. She stood firm for herself and her beliefs. She felt the need to represent other women in fighting for their rights. She fought for women by campaigning for women’s rights all around the nation. When male members of the movement refused to let her speak at rallies, simply because she was a woman, she realized that women had to win the right to speak in public and to vote

First and foremost, the fight for women’s rights is something that has occurred throughout time not only in the United States, but in every part of the world. When it comes to the United States, one cannot deny that it was an important historical event. “The struggle for women’s suffrage in the United States had occupied better part of a century” (Source 1). Truly a struggle, for it was not acknowledged by men in the past, primarily white man who had full rights in the nation. Susan B. Anthony was an important leading figure of the Suffrage Movement and contributed to the Suffrage Movement.

In the early stages of the year 1873, social reformer, women's rights advocate, proponent of feminism, Susan B. Anthony, shed’s light on women being able to have a lawful right to vote, with an influential speech, that leads to equality for women and men, this protest coordinates women and voting, but also opens opportunity for women in everything that they do. Susan B. Anthony supports her claims in a forceful manner, by explaining the amount of suffrage taking place in women's lives, as a result of the lack of rights they have, she gives a valid example by explaining her arrest, for “the alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote”, she states that she did not commit a crime, she just exercised her rights as a citizen guaranteed by the National Constitution. Anthony’s purpose is to exert the rights for women that are in the Constitution, that are being overlooked by the United States Government. She establishes a compelling tone for whom it applies to.

Susan Brownell Anthony was a magnificent women who devoted most of her life to gain the right for women to vote. She traveled the United States by stage coach, wagon, and train giving many speeches, up to 75 to 100 a year, for 45 years. She went as far as writing a newspaper, the Revolution, and casting a ballot, despite it being illegal.

“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

Susan B. Anthony, an American women’s rights activist is one of the most famous women in American History. Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts and passed away March 13, 1906 due to pneumonia and heart failure. She had 8 brothers and sisters. When her family moved to Battenville, New York, she became homeschooled. She is most famous for her prominent role in the women’s suffrage movement pushing the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote, but she has numerous additional accomplishments including: founding the National Woman’s Suffrage Association (NWSA) in 1869, the International Council of Women in 1888, and the International Woman Suffrage Council in 1904, publishing “The Revolution”, wrote the Susan B. Anthony Amendment in 1878, which became the 19th Amendment to give women the right to vote, first person to be arrested for illegally voting in a presidential and put on trial for voting, campaigning for women to learn self-reliance and self-confidence, the first women to appear on a U.S. coin. Anthony worked as a teacher in Canajoharie, New York and became involved in the teacher’s union where she discovered the inequality of male teachers salary versus

Anthony was insane for trying women equal but she always told herself that “[F]ailure was impossible” (qtd. in Matthews). Anthony registered to vote in Rochester and was charged $100 fine that she never paid, “[I]n 1872 after concluding that nothing in the Constitution specifically prohibited women from voting” (Susan B. Anthony). She refused to pay because it wasn’t fair that men got to vote but women didn’t. What made men more important than women? “Some saw no point in women voting; with no understanding of politics, they would only vote as their menfolk told them” (Lavender, William, and Mary). This is why people insulted and made fun of her, she believed in something not very many other people did. She needed to get men to agree with her. When Susan B. Anthony began the women’s suffrage movement “...women had few legal rights. [T]oday women have opportunities for higher education, the privilege of working at almost any occupation, the right to control or own property and children, the right to hold public office, and the right to vote” (Susan B.. Anthony). Through Susan Anthony’s hard work, efforts, and dedication she helped the world of women better. She knew that women were capable of things that nobody else thought we were able to do. Anthony never got to see the ratification of the 19th Amendment, because it took a century to get the world to agree with her. Before this happened, she wanted to get black men out of slavery so more people would start to like

Women’s rights did not officially begin to be a problem until 1848. Many believe that it’s been a problem from at most the 1600’s. Colonial women didn’t give a thought about their rights, but there were some female political leaders. Margaret Brent, a woman who had been given power-of-attorney from Lord Baltimore. Judith Sargent Stevens Murray, the writer of the United States’ first feminist theory. “Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old is more sage than that of a female the same age? I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! How is the one exalted and the other depressed…. The one is taught to aspire, and the other is early confined and limited.”

Susan B. Anthony was a teacher, a leader, and an inspiration to many people. She devoted her life not only to give women the right to vote, but also for the equal rights of all people. After being denied the right to speak at the state convention at the Sons of Temperance in Albany, she realized that no one would take women seriously in politics. She then worked extremely hard to earn women their rights. She founded the National Women Suffrage Association along with activist Elizabeth Cady

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.

Anthony was a woman who proves mankind chooses to make good choices. She chose to stick up not only for herself, but all women whose rights were being denied. She stood for the equality of all people, and she devoted her life to making a change in the way the world viewed both women and slavery. Susan is an important historical figure who proves mankind cares about others and takes notice of them. Susan chose to do good in the world by speaking out for equal rights, and mankind has chosen to do good and listen to her. While some people may argue that Susan B. Anthony should not have advocated for equality so strongly because, as a result, many laws had to be changed, Anthony is one reason why American citizens have equal rights today. Without Anthony, women would not be allowed to vote and would be viewed as ignoble compared to men. Laws had to change in order for women and blacks to receive the rights they deserve, and someone had to make a stand to amend them. Susan B. Anthony dedicated her life to campaigning for equal rights, especially for women, and mankind should be grateful she

According to author, Hope Stoddard, Susan B. Anthony was a firm, upright person. She wasn’t afraid to show it to anyone and everyone who wanted to know how she felt. One day, during a marriage custody conference, an abolitionist by the name of Rev. A. D. Mayo asked Anthony, in modified words, by what means could she take part in discussions on marriage when she was not married herself. She responded to this by saying, in revised words, that he was not a slave, so maybe he should not be taking part in discussions on slavery. It was this kind of determination that led Susan B. Anthony towards gaining women the right to have equal guardianship of their children (Dorr 55).

Anthony did achieve her goals seeing as today women are allowed to vote. She felt she had also accomplished her personal goal of helping others which was her soul purpose in life. She knew she couldn’t have done it alone as well, if it wasn’t for the inspiration she earned form her parents. She also had a friend who helped her as well, her name was Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Anthony saw Stanton as more of a friend even though the two were partners in many groups and protest they had together.

Harriet Jacobs, in her narrative, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, was born into slavery in the south. While her youth contained “six years of happy childhood,” a few tragedies and mistresses later, Jacobs spent many years in pain under the possession of her cruel five-year-old mistress, Emily Flint, and Emily’s father, Dr. Flint. Once able to obtain freedom, Jacobs spent most of her life working for the Anti-Slavery office in New York, in hope that one day she could make a difference in the world. “She sought to win the respect and admiration of her readers for the courage with which she forestalled abuse and for the independence with which she chose a lover rather than having one forced on her” (Jacobs 921). Linda Brett, the pseudonym that Jacobs uses to narrate her life story, endures the harsh behavior women slaves were treated with in the south during the nineteenth century. The dominant theme of the corruptive power and psychological abuse of slavery, along with symbolism of good and evil, is demonstrated throughout her narrative to create a story that exposes the terrible captivity woman slaves suffered. The reality of slavery in the past, versus slavery today is used to reveal how the world has changed and grown in the idea of racism and neglect.

Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony is a favored women who became well known over the world by ending women's suffrage and allowing them right to vote. She dedicated her life to conclude the period of racising women and children. During her moment while she was preparing and planning to make U.S, a better place, she faced a lot of barriers. Govenment officials and few men disagreed with the Anthony's arguement. "Independence is happiness" by Susan B. Anthony.