The woman that fought so hard for something she never saw completed went down in history as one of the greatest, most influential people in America. Susan B. Anthony was among the women with great ambition and fire to see change in the world around her. She believed all people, gender or race, should have rights. Anthony wanted all of America to feel equal and empowered to work together to fight for the common good. She was a suffragist and abolitionist who wanted women to feel as important as men. Susan B. Anthony was born 1820 in Massachusetts to parents Daniel and Lucy. She was brought up in a Quaker household, her parents believed in activist traditions, and they fought for temperance movements. Her father believed all his children should
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Her first involvement of unfair treatment, because she was a women, was during her first teaching job. She got let go because she voiced her opinion on how men were getting paid more than she was. Susan found this to be unfair, she was doing the same job as them yet getting paid five times less than them, “in 1848 Susan B. Anthony was working as a teacher in Canajoharie, New York and became involved with the teacher’s union when she discovered that male teachers had a monthly salary of $10.00, while the female teachers earned $2.50 a month” (). This incident proved Susan would fight for what she wanted. She did not sit back and just take getting less pay. By speaking her opinion and showing facts she was let go, but being the fighter she was this did not discourage her from going after equal pay for all or equal rights in general. In this situation, Anthony was shaped by the cultural ideologies of unfair pay. Even though she worked just as hard as the men, if not harder, Susan still was not allowed the same amount of money just because she was a women. This situation allowed Susan to see her real passion which was gaining equal rights and the right to vote for …show more content…
While traveling the world and working on her speeches the 15th Amendment passed, which gave the right to African American men to vote. Ecstatic about this new amendment for the African American population, she was still sadden at the fact women were still not granted the right to vote. Seeing the inequality once again, just like all the times before, Susan and Stanton created their new foundation, National American Woman Suffrage Association. (). Now more than ever these two women were in a constant battle trying to help women. Susan even went as far as trying to vote. She stated that “the recently adopted Fourteenth Amendment gave women the constitutional right to vote in federal elections. The Amendment said that "all persons born and naturalized in the United States...are citizens of the United States," and as citizens were entitled to the "privileges" of citizens of the United States.” (). Susan believed these privileges included the right to vote. Susan and about 50 other women went on the day of the election and tried to register to vote. The men there denied her the right to vote. She proceeded to fight back and eventually these men allowed her the right to vote along with fifteen other women. Days later Susan was charged for casting an illegal vote. Susan B. Anthony was sent to trial in June 1873. (). The judge however never gave her a fair trial and already had her punishment
Her first involvement of unfair treatment, because she was a women, was during her first teaching job. She got let go because she voiced her opinion on how men were getting paid more than she was. Susan found this to be unfair, she was doing the same job as them yet getting paid five times less than them, “in 1848 Susan B. Anthony was working as a teacher in Canajoharie, New York and became involved with the teacher’s union when she discovered that male teachers had a monthly salary of $10.00, while the female teachers earned $2.50 a month” (). This incident proved Susan would fight for what she wanted. She did not sit back and just take getting less pay. By speaking her opinion and showing facts she was let go, but being the fighter she was this did not discourage her from going after equal pay for all or equal rights in general. In this situation, Anthony was shaped by the cultural ideologies of unfair pay. Even though she worked just as hard as the men, if not harder, Susan still was not allowed the same amount of money just because she was a women. This situation allowed Susan to see her real passion which was gaining equal rights and the right to vote for …show more content…
While traveling the world and working on her speeches the 15th Amendment passed, which gave the right to African American men to vote. Ecstatic about this new amendment for the African American population, she was still sadden at the fact women were still not granted the right to vote. Seeing the inequality once again, just like all the times before, Susan and Stanton created their new foundation, National American Woman Suffrage Association. (). Now more than ever these two women were in a constant battle trying to help women. Susan even went as far as trying to vote. She stated that “the recently adopted Fourteenth Amendment gave women the constitutional right to vote in federal elections. The Amendment said that "all persons born and naturalized in the United States...are citizens of the United States," and as citizens were entitled to the "privileges" of citizens of the United States.” (). Susan believed these privileges included the right to vote. Susan and about 50 other women went on the day of the election and tried to register to vote. The men there denied her the right to vote. She proceeded to fight back and eventually these men allowed her the right to vote along with fifteen other women. Days later Susan was charged for casting an illegal vote. Susan B. Anthony was sent to trial in June 1873. (). The judge however never gave her a fair trial and already had her punishment