Essay On Susan B Anthony

Introduction

Susan Brownell Anthony was an American social transformer and a women's rights advocate who played a very important role in the women's suffrage movement. In the year of 1820, feminist leader Susan B Anthony, established a new program with the intent to change the economy. Susan Anthony’s life was dedicated to the equality of all people regardless of their race or gender by writing an influential newspaper, creating leagues and organizations, and putting herself at personal risk for others.

The Revolution

Susan B. Anthony established many things for women's rights. In 1868 she started publishing the newspaper called the revolution. She started this newspaper in Rochester, New York. She supported a workshop founded by the Sewing

Machine Operators Union, which empowered the writers in The Revolution. The Revolution had a rule since it was first founded, that they were not going to put any unprincipled adds in the newspaper. The Revolution’s add policy could be used only if Susan leadership included selling ads. Susan was in charge of the 10,000 debts that the paper owed. It was eventually was paid off. Susan tried to created schools for women printers. When the printers went on strike, she convinced the employers to hire women to do the job. She believed that women could do the job just as well as men could and deserved equal pay for all their hare work. It was 1869 when the National Labor Union Congress, the men’s Typographical Union charged Anthony of strike-breaking and running a non-union shop at the revolution.
Organisations and leagues
Susan Anthony created many organization and leagues.

In 1851, Susan met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and coworker in social reforming activities, mostly in the field of women's rights. In 1863 Anthony organized Women’s National Loyal League, which collected nearly 400,000 for the abolition of slavery. This was very important because at that women's rights had become a huge matter. Susan created so many organizations and leagues dedicated to free lives and equality for all people. In 1869 Anthony establish a new organization, the National Woman Suffrage Association. The people at the National Woman Suffrage Association all agreed that the 14th and 15th amendment were an insult to women. As the amendments did not allow them to vote. The association also advocated for divorce to be easier and for equal pay at work regardless of race or

gender.
Personal Risk
Susan Anthony put herself at personal risk for the rights of all people.

Even with her vigorous attempts, she still put herself in danger. Even though she already went all over the country to rally, she eventually took things into their own hands when she voted illegally in 1872, in her hometown Rochester, NY. She was accused in a widely publicized trial. Of the 14 women who voted only, she was put on trial because she was the leader of the feminist at that point. The women that voted expected to be sent away because they were women. They were using a strategy that the National Women's Suffrage Association conjured. The National Women's Suffrage Association believed that they had right to vote because of the 14th amendment, stating that all citizens of the US have the right to vote regardless of their race. 12 days after the election, Commissioner William Storrs arrested Susan Anthony and the 14 other women who voted. She demanded to be arrested properly when a deputy federal marshal arrested her differently because she was a

woman.
Speeches and campaigns
Susan traveled very extensively to give speeches about slavery and the rights of women. On average, she gave 75-100 speeches a year. She also campaigned vigorously and tirelessly until she died. One of the things she campaigned for the rights of children of slaves to attend public schools. She also campaigned for the right of children of people who had been enslaved to be able to attend public schools.
Harsh Marriage
The life of average women was very difficult at the time. Their husbands owned them and anything they had including money. Women had no right to own their own property. They generally were paid less ( and still are) than men. This made it very hard for women to support themselves. A man could abuse his wife and children and there was nothing anyone could do. This is one of the major issues that Susan advocated for.
Educational value
In the year 1846, Susan B. Anthony was hired the boss of the girls’ section at Canajoharie Academy. She taught there for two years and earned $110 a year. In 1853 at the state teachers’ convection Susan wanted all jobs available to women and better pay for all women teachers. It was 1859 when Anthony talked at another state Teachers convention in Troy, N.Y. and Massachusetts where she fought over so that men and women could have equal education. She also wanted equal education for all races, for all schools and colleges. In the 1890s, Anthony was on the board of trustees of Rochester’s state industrial school which campaigned for equal education and befalling for both genders. She also raised $50,000 in pledges for the admittance of women into the University of Rochester. For the first time the university accepted women.
Work issues
In 1868 Anthony motivated women to work at the printing and sewing trades in New York. These trades were not available to men. In 1868, as a tribute to National Labor Congress, Susan convinced the organisation that women should have equal pay and should be able to vote. The men at the conference deleted any reference to the vote. In the year 1870, Anthony created Working Women’ Central Association and was elected president. The association created reports on the unfairness of the working conditions and the education of women. She wanted women to be able to speak at the convention and have committee jobs. It is very important to have equal pay for all so all people can support themselves.
Alcohol
Susan was born into a quaker family which believed that drinking is a sin. While Susan was working as the head of the girls’ department of Canajoharie Academy, she joined the Daughters of Temperance. The Daughters of Temperance was a division of women who pulled attention toward the horrible effects of drunkenness on families. She campaigned for stronger laws against liquor In 1848 she made her first public speech at a Daughters of Temperance dinner. It was 1849 when Susan returned to her hometown, Rochester where she was elected president of the branch of Daughters of Temperance that dwelled in Rochester. She raised money for this cause. Anthony was refused her request to speak at the state convention of the Sons of Temperance in Albany in 1853. She exited the meeting and created her own meeting. Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton founded the Women’s State Temperance Society with the intention of petitioning the State Legislature to pass a law that limited the sale of liquor. The State turned them down because most of the signatures were from women and children. Anthony decided that women needed to be able to vote before politicians would listen to them. Anthony and Stanton were accused of talking too much about women's rights and so the resigned from the Woman's State Temperance Society.
Slavery
Susan B. Anthony was a quaker who believed in equal treatment and voting rights for all regardless of their race or gender. Susan was the daughter of Daniel, whose was a cotton manufacturer and a quaker who campaigned against the slave trade. Susan was taught at her father’s school, a philadelphia boarding school and a girls academy near her hometown. It was 1852 when Anthony started campaigning for women's suffrage, equal pay and was active in the American Anti-Slavery Society. The American Anti-Slavery Society helped slaves escape out of the Underground Railroad. During the Civil War, Anthony supported the Union cause and president Abraham Lincoln by forming the Women’s Loyal League. In 1866, she joined with other people to create the American Equal Rights Association. The next year the organization became very busy in Kansas where negro suffrage and women's suffrage were going to be decided by whichever idea has the most votes. Unfortunately both ideas were rejected according to the vote.