Susan B. Anthony In The Gilded Age

Susan B. Anthony is known worldwide, for her involvement as an abolitionist, education reformer, labor activist, suffragist, and the fights for the rights of women across the country. She was known at the beginning of the 1820 and withheld a long, eventful, meaningful life. She was known most importantly through the Gilded Age which was a time period where it withheld many political scandals, and displays of extravagant wealth. As a leading activist, a head of the support for the right of women to vote, and her legacy changed history for the entire nation of women since then as she stood for what she believed was right.

Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, where she grew up in a Quaker family. Throughout

her upbringing, she spent a lot of time developing a strong moral to incorporate in the working of social issues. She was the second oldest of eight siblings, a while later she migrated to Battenville, New York in 1826 with her remaining family. In New York, she then went off to study at a Quaker school. Her strong ambition to be a leader and voice started at a young age, where she later became a teacher where she taught for two years. During her teaching career, she fought for the equality of educational opportunities, regardless of race for all schools.
During this time period, there was slavery occurring in the states and that is when she and her family became involved and determined to end slavery, known as the abolitionist movement. A short period after becoming involved in such movement, she became leader of the girls’ department at Canajoharie Academy. Her involvement with young girls and women led her to become a leading activist after 1894, where she devoted much of her time on social issues. Not only was she a leading activist, but she also became involved in the temperance movement, to stop the selling and production of alcohol.
Susan B. Anthony, was also a part of fighting for women’s rights. It was during this time that her involvement in such movements did not have a lot of meaning because she was denied of speaking during the conferences because she was a women. It was then that she along with a partner, established the Women’s New York State Temperance Society in 1852 soon to be fighting for women’s rights. Anthony was involved in many events and petitions that would allowed women the right to vote and own property. She was very well known as she traveled fighting for the rights of women across the country. Not only was she an activist for women but also to end slavery during the Civil War.
Throughout her life she fought and demanded to be heard, and even in her later years she continued and was determined. In her obituary in The New York Times, Susan B. Anthony, said “To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.” Anthony was not only involved in an extensive amounts of conferences and movements, but she also suffered for the sake of women. She was threatened, involved in hostile mobs, and arrested, but because of her strong moral character, and her ambition to change the way of politics she continued to fight for what she believed was right. It was not until 14 years after her death, in 1920 that the 19th amendment of the U.S Constitution, giving all women the right to vote was passed.