How Did Susan B Anthony Get The Right To Vote

Susan B. Anthony played a major role in women receiving the right to vote. Her life was dedicated to fighting for civil rights. She never gave up on getting women the civil rights that they deserved. Women's voting rights were extremely controversial during Ms. Anthony’s time. Susan Anthony had the courage to stand up and fight for what she believed in, because of this, every woman should appreciate her. Minorities are included in the many different groups of people that would not have received the right to vote without Susan Anthony. Wealthy white men, seen as superior to all other types of people, were the only people that had the right to vote. The people that thought that voting rights should be restricted to wealthy white men were seen as either stubborn or scared in the eyes of Susan B. Anthony. …show more content…
Ms.Elizabeth Stanton was her brave partner from New Jersey. They worked together like a well oiled machine. Elizabeth once said “I forged the thunderbolts, she fired them.”. ("Susan B. Anthony") Elizabeth convinced Susan to join the women’s rights movement in 1852. They were one of the greatest dynamic duos in my opinion. They were not just partners in business, but they were also close friends, so close that they could almost be considered sisters. “Though she was an ardent abolitionist and temperance campaigner, Anthony is most remembered as a feminist, who in her 50-year partnership with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, laid down and executed the strategy that eventually would lead to winning women the right to vote.” ("Susan B. Anthony") Susan and Elizabeth changed the way people thought about women having civil