Susan B. Anthony's Suffrage Movement

Susan B. Anthony is a figure in history known for fighting for women’s rights during the women’s suffrage movement. Her and Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked together to establish the National Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony gave speeches endlessly around the country (“Susan B. Anthony Biography” Biography) in an effort to convince people to allow a woman’s right to vote. A bold action she took was to illegally vote in Rochester, NY. She led a group of women to vote with her including three of her own sisters. On November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony wanted to be arrested for voting. To begin with, Susan B. Anthony was born into a Quaker household where she learned the value of equality which led her to getting involved with working on causes

Anthony did not actually think her vote would be counted in the final ballet. According to the Federal Judicial Center, “ Pursuing a strategy adopted by the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1871, she expected to be denied registration as a voter and subsequently to sue for her right to vote in federal court,”(“The Trial of Susan B. Anthony” Federal Judicial Center). Anthony’s plan was to be rejected and sue the U.S. government afterward because of the Fourteenth Amendment and Fifteenth Amendment. Members of the National Woman Suffrage Association believed that women were considered as U.S. citizens because they were born in America by the Fourteenth Amendment. Also, the Fifteenth Amendment states that U.S. citizens should be given the right to vote without rejection because it is written in Constitution. Unfortunately, Anthony demanded her right to vote and was successful in the process because of her strong wit and

Anthony. As previously stated, Anthony was not the only woman to use the fourteenth amendment as a way to get the exception to vote. Women around the country tried to get a vote in for the election of 1872. Over 150 women tried to attempt to vote in about ten states, but only a few were able to succeed (Beachley). Susan B. Anthony’s vote was able to gain more attention because she was more well-known to the women’s suffrage movement. She was one of the 50 women in Rochester, NY. This idea of getting arrested for voting was done by many during that day. Her idea of using the fourteenth amendment came from National Woman Suffrage Association. Although she used this tactic, her determined personality got her vote and others along with her the vote. The reason why she decided to vote was because many woman at the time did