Susan B. Anthony His 102 ON 1 United States History II Jennifer Conroy Edwards April 1, 2014 Would women have the right to vote without Susan B. Anthony? Susan Brownwell Anthony was one of the most extraordinary people of the 19th century, who rose from an ordinary Quaker world to become known as the “Napoleon” of feminism. Susan herself compared the relationship of wife and husband to slavery because it provided women the legal property of her husband, by the end of her work she helped women become----and eventually through her persistence although she did not get to live to see it, got women their voice to vote, without Susan B. Anthony’s life dedication to Woman's suffrage, I wouldn’t be surprised if women still wouldn’t have the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony was born February 15,1820 in Adams Massachusetts, She was the daughter to a cotton mill owner, who was a liberal Quaker. Susan's father taught her the ideas of self-support, self-discipline,principled convictions, and belief in self worth. Reform was very active in the Anthony home, both Mother and Father were strong believers in temperance and women's rights. Fighting for civil rights was in her blood. Susan's father even employed teachers in his own home. Growing up Susan had only known the Quaker life style were men and women spoke equally. Anthony’s first job was a teacher with the New York state school system. Her weekly salary was only one-fifth that of a male teacher, she protested the inequality, due to that and that she was visiting African Americans in their homes eventually caused her to get fired. After that she became a principal of the girls department oat Canajoharie Academy where one of the academies trustees stated,”thi... ... middle of paper ... ...re and an American hero she devoted her life to working towards equal rights for all women. Through writing, speaking, and campaigning, Anthony and her supporters brought about change in the United States government and gave women the important voice that they had always been denied. Any study of feminism or women’s history would be incomplete without learning about her. She fought for her beliefs for 50 years and led the way for women to be granted rights as citizens of their country, Thanks to Anthony’s persistence, several years after her death, in 1920 women were given the right by the Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution. I do believe she was the key figure in women getting the right to vote. “She will forever stand alone and unapproached, her fame continually increasing as evolution lifts humanity into higher appreciation of justice and liberty.”
I, Susan B. Anthony, am a transcendentalists and women’s right activist. I was raised in a family where everyone was politically active. My family was active in the abolitionist movement and also the temperance movement. When I was campaigning what the temperance movement it inspired me to fight for women’s rights. The reason being is because when I attended a temperance convention I was denied the right to speak because I was a women. I was infuriated by this. I also realized that if women didn’t earn the right to vote no one would take any women seriously where politics were involved. So i founded the National Women Suffrage Association with activist Elizabeth Stanton. Then I began speaking and protesting all round america. In 1872 I even
Susan B. Anthony was indeed a strong, driven, and disciplined woman who had a great desire and passion to abolish slavery. Upon meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton she became immersed in the women's rights movement, dedicating her life to obtaining equal rights for all. Many men pursued Susan but she never married, she did not want to be "owned" by a man. Instead she chose to dedicate her entire life to this cause.
Susan Brownell Anthony, being an abolitionist, educational reformer, labor activist, and organizer for woman suffrage, used her intellectual and confident mind to fight for parity. Anthony fought for women through campaigning for women’s rights as well as a suffragist for many around the nation. She had focused her attention on the need for women to reform law in their own interests, both to improve their conditions and to challenge the "maleness" of current law. Susan B. Anthony helped the abolitionists and fought for women’s rights to change the United States with her Quaker values and strong beliefs in equality.
Susan B. Anthony believed that women should have the same rights as men. She fought for this right in many different ways, but she is most famous for showing civil disobedience by voting illegally. Unfortunately, Anthony fought all her life for women’s rights, but her dreams were not fulfilled until 14 years after she died (“Susan” Bio).
Through their struggles, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were able to win many rights for American women. 1 Born on November 12, 1815, in Johnstown, New York, Elizabeth Cady grew up around wealth and privilege, the daughter of Daniel Cady, a well-known judge, and Margaret Livingston. In 1826, the death of her brother Eleazar motivated her to excel in every area her brother had in an attempt to compensate her father for his loss. After her graduation in 1833, she became interested in the world of reform at the home of her cousin Gerrit Smith. There she fell in love with the abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton.2 After the Stanton's moved from Boston to the village of Seneca Falls, New York, in 1847, Elizabeth found herself in a very non-active community.
After moving to Rochester, NY in 1845, the Anthony family became very active in the anti-slavery movement.
Susan B. Anthony was a prominent women’s rights activist and a social reformer. She dedicated her life to spread awareness of the danger and unfairness of social inequalities and slavery. She helped creating or advocating many US and International organizations. She lobbied the creation of laws to protect the rights of citizens regardless of their ethnicity or gender. She was "one of the most loved and hated women in the country. "Her opponents often described her as "nsexed, an unnatural creature that did not function as a true woman, one who devoted her life to a husband” (Barry). She passed away
Anthony 's’ role in civil disobedience one should first know about her personal life. Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, where she grew up in a Quaker family (“Susan” Bio). Her father, Daniel, owned a cotton factory most of his life. Daniel’s wife, Lucy, stayed at home and raised six strong kids. Guelma, Susan, Hannah, Daniel Reed were all born is Adams, Massachusetts (Gwynnie). Anthony was an intelligent child who learned to read and write at the age of three. After her family moved from Massachusetts to New York, she attended a district school, a home school set up by her father, and then a boarding school near Philadelphia (The Editors). When Anthony and her sister were in elementary school, their male teacher refused to teach them math due to their gender. This upset their father, Daniel, so he set up a home school for his children (Gwynnie). Anthony’s family was forced to move to Rochester because of the depression of 1837, which caused her father, Daniel, to go bankrupt and lose their home in Battensville (Margo). Anthony always made her work in life one of justice and sought to establish equality in the world. After she had taught for fifteen years, Anthony involved herself in the temperance movement. She also because active in the anti-slavery movement. Since she was
As a social studies girl, I knew most famous women in history. But without a doubt, I would choose Susan B. Anthony. She was a social reformer who played a significant role in women’s suffrage movement. As a feminist, she went against women stereotypes. During the 1800s, women were recognized as a social inferior group. Their jobs were categorized as a phrase- Republican Motherhood. This phrase means that as a woman, our job is to take care about domestic issues and we cannot take over men’ jobs. As a young woman, I had experienced gender stereotype in China. I believe that I state it in my personal statement. If I had a chance to talk to her, I would love to ask about her role as a political figure. What did she experienced that made her a
Anthony was very successful in resolving the issues of women’s rights and suffrage. Although Anthony and Stanton definitely paved the way for the 19th Amendment, which allowed women’s suffrage, they made little progress during their lifetimes. In New York, where Anthony campaigned throughout the state from 1853-1860, lecturing, petitioning, and lobbying the legislators for women’s rights. Finally, in 1860, the New York State Married Women 's Property Bill was passed by the state legislature, allowing women to have custody of their children and own property and money (Susan B. Anthony House). Similar bills were soon passed throughout the country. Anthony was also respected by many people because of her eloquence, determination, and diligence. One of the women in Rochester, where Anthony lived for part of her life, was quoted as saying “No, I am not converted to what [the suffragists] advocate. I am too cowardly for that; but I am converted to Susan B. Anthony” (Weisberg 19) Anthony was so influential and important in the suffrage movement that some people even thought that the suffrage movement might disappear after her
Born on February 15, 1820 amidst a patriarchal society, Anthony devoted her entire life to fight for women’s suffrage movement in the late 19th century. An American civil rights leader who believed in the equal power between men and women, she not only fought against gender discrimination, but also propelled the world to acknowledge women’s rights (Wikipedia, “Susan B. Anthony”). Anthony demonstrated many characteristics of self-actualization throughout her life. Raised with a religious upbringing in a Quaker family, she and her family lived the controversial eras of slavery, worker’s unions, and temperance movements. Unlike many other slaves or lower class citizens of her time, her biological and safety/security needs had been fulfilled, allowing her to devote herself to broad social problems as her mission in life. After attending the Seneca Falls Convention (women’s rights convention) and joining the National Women’s Rights Convention in 1851, Anthony never stopped challenging institutions and dogmatic thinking (National Park Service. “Women’s Right...
The central idea of, “Woman's Right to Suffrage,” By Susan B. Anthony is to persuade you to believe that women should be able vote and hold all the rights of men, and to make you go out and to do something about it. “Woman’s Right to Suffrage,” by Susan B. Anthony is the most compelling because it uses an amazing tone, detail, and good sources that persuades the reader to do something.
If asked to name one person involved in the fight for social equalities would Susan B. Anthony come to mind? Susan’s passion for social reform began on her family farm in Adams, Massachusetts. On the fifteenth of February in 1820, Susan Brownell Anthony was born to a local cotton mill owner and his wife. She was the second eldest of eight children born to the Quaker family. It was in this Quaker family were her passion for equal rights grew. In the Quaker religion women are treated equal to men before God. According to Sara Ann McGill (2017) author of “Susan B. Anthony”, around age seventeen Anthony’s family moved to Battenville, New York only to lose their home to bankruptcy and move to Rochester,
Moreover, Jane Addams supported ubiquitous women’s suffrage. Where some women disputed that only white women of the working class should have voting rights, Jane Addams articulated that during their times, not all women had the opportunity to work – some women simply had to stay home to protect their husbands and children and do the work around the house. She went on further to state that all women were needed to make sure that the streets and politics were as immaculate as possible. In fact, she voices that the mere fact that women needed to gain the right to vote is what “helped push women suffrage to victory” (Nash, 476). Additionally, Jane Addams firmly believes in peace rather than war.
Achieving equality between men and women was a long and arduous task. In the 19th century, an organized women’s rights movement began in the United States. Perhaps its most famous leader was Susan B. Anthony, a champion of women’s rights until her death in 1906. Susan B. Anthony’s work established and inspired the institution of many women’s rights, and she remains one of the most influential women in history.