Who Is Susan B Anthony Responsible For Women's Rights

Women’s rights did not come easily in America, many women protested, suffered, and fought for their rights. Many people today do not have a clue who was behind all of this. Susan Brownell Anthony was one of the most significant leaders for women’s rights in the 1850s. If it was not for her, maybe women would not have rights to vote, or have many more privileges that we have today. She made history and is still recognized and thanked until now. Even as a young girl Susan, had an interest in social issues and causes. Susan is one of the most important and motivating people in woman’s history. She based her life off of her personal beliefs, morals, and the belief that men and women should be equal.

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B. Anthony is pretty much my role model. She stood up for herself, her rights, and her freedom. It all started when she was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. She had 7 siblings, and grew up in a Quaker family (a group of Christians who use no scripture and believe in great simplicity in daily life and in worship). Later when she turned 6, her family moved to Battenville, New York, in 1826. Susan B. Anthony was then sent to a school Quaker school close to Philadelphia. One of her teachers refused to teach her long division, which made her dad create his own school, where her sisters and brothers, and neighbors were educated. Susan then started teaching at the school, but then in 1837 enrolled at Deborah Moulson’s Female Seminary to further her personal education. Then she went back to teaching to help pay her father’s debts, due to the Panic of 1837, which had forced him to declare bankruptcy.
In 1845, her family had moved to a farm in Rochester, New York. In helped run her family insurance business. Even though she was helping her family she still worked with the temperance movement, and became more active in the abolitionist movement. Where her father had taken a big significance and role when they lived in Adams, Massachusetts. Later on family farm in began to be a meeting place for abolitionists, which included Frederick Douglass. Her Family has always been in political movements, they always stood up for what they believed in no matter what. They were very known for that, and known for their honesty.
Her family was part of a temperance movement, which was meant to push alcohol sales to be slowed down or stopped. Then her family began to move away from the Quakers because they noticed many hypocritical behavior from them, such as drinking alcohol, from preachers--to just members of the Quaker organization. So she continued her journey in outside of the Quaker religion and education. Susan taught a couple of schools in the 1840s. When she worked as a teacher in Canajoharie, New York, she noticed a massive difference in salary for men and women, men made $10.00 a month while women made $2.50 a month. Which enraged Susan very much which cause her to join a teachers union to fight for equal wages.
Anthony still continued to be in the teacher’s unions even though she stopped teaching 1853.

In 1851, Susan met a woman named Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was at an anti-slavery meeting in Seneca Falls, New York. Elizabeth began fighting for women’s rights since 1848 and was known for being a great figure in women’s suffrage. Even though Susan B. Anthony did not become an active member in the suffrage movement immediately, she and Elizabeth became great friends, and they motivated and inspired each other to fight for equal rights and women’s rights. In September, 1852, Susan gave her first speech at the National Women’s Rights convention. In 1853 the Temperance state convention in Albany, Susan was not given the right to speak, they told her that the women had been invited only just to listen and learn. This enraged her, causing her to leave the meeting to call her own. In that year, Susan and Elizabeth founded the Women’s State Temperance Society. They petitioned and protested the New York state legislature to pass a law which was to slow down the sales of liquor. Their petition/protest was not approved. They had 28,000 signatures but because it was mainly from children and women they did not think it was enough... This made Anthony and Elizabeth focus mainly on the suffrage movement. Wanting to gain more political attention and freedom but they were harshly and

criticized.
During the 1850s and 1860s, Susan worked on improving her communication skills.

Continuing her journey with the temperance movement. She continued fighting for equal rights for women, and her anti-slavery movement. In 1856 Anthony became a part of an organization for the American Anti-Slavery society, involving organization meetings, speeches, petitions, and sometimes pro-violence. Susan had to deal with many furious mobs and sometimes physical threats. She also had many things thrown at her, she was extremely criticized and looked down upon. Even through all of this, Susan and Elizabeth stuck through the women’s right movement. They Formed the Woman’s National Loyal League in 1863 that supported the Thirteenth Amendment, which was to abolish slavery, their campaign was to abolish slavery and give women

freedom.
In 1868, Susan started to publish a weekly newspaper called, The Revolution. Which provided a powerful argument to the biased evident in most of the newspapers. She said “The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize woman as the equal of man.” She argued for equal rights, suffrage, and equal pay. Since Susan was in charge of publishing the paper it brought an idea to her to get in contact with the women working in the printing trade. She motivated, encouraged, and inspired them to form trade unions since they were not included in the men’s trade unions. She then accused of strikebreaking in because she encouraged them to hire women during a printers strike to print her column, the Revolution. After the passing of the Fourteenth Amendment, which says, "Everyone born or naturalized in the U.S, and are a subject of the U.S, are citizens of the U.S wherever they live in the U.S " Susan made a point that women should then be able have right to vote in elections and she planned to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
Susan and 14 other women were arrested for violating the law. In-between her indictment and trial, Susan traveled to towns spreading the words saying “Is it a Crime for a Citizen of the United States to Vote?" Her trial in June 1873, the judge hearing both arguments, he read an opinion concluding that Anthony was guilty and ending the opinion with "the jury should be directed to find a verdict of guilty." The day before the sentence day, the judge t provided Anthony with a chance to speak, her argument was that her lawyer had told her, her rights as a human have been violated. The judge then fined her $100 which Susan refused to pay, saying "not a penny shall go to this unjust claim." The judge then ended the trial by saying, "Madam, the Court will not order you committed until the fine is paid," which prevented her from going to a higher court, which she never did. In 1887, The National American Woman Suffrage associated with Elizabeth and Susan served as its first two presidents Susan Brownell Anthony passed away in 1906 .Then Nineteenth Amendment was passed in 1920, 14 years after Susan’s death.
Susan B. Anthony is a great impact on history, not just in women’s history. She thrived, fought, suffered, was judged, and criticized but never gave up. She is a true role model, a powerful woman with a great reason and message. She helped her family as a young lady, and helped all women of America as a grown woman. Susan B. Anthony is amazing women, she never gave up, which is really motivational. Her life impacts mine, if it was not for her I might not be able to vote when I am 18, she made so many things possible. People in history are sometimes not credited much, if it was not for the people in the past, we would have a future