SUSAN B. ANTHONY 3 Susan B. Anthony: Equality Starts With One Voice
Women did not always have the right to vote. It wasn’t until a woman named Susan B. Anthony devoted her life to fighting for the rights of women that the issue of women voting was ever truly thought about. On top of driving people to think about the rights of women, Anthony also drove people to consider the rights of African Americans and fought for temperance. Susan B. Anthony, as an evangelist, believed in equality for all people and devoted her life to fighting for abolition and woman’s rights. Susan B. Anthony is remembered today for her fight for the equality of all people.
Susan B. Anthony was raised in a Quaker house with her family. Lucy Anthony …show more content…
Anthony was appalled when she heard fugitive slaves tell their tales of life in the South (Weisberg, 1988). Daniel Anthony, Susan B. Anthony’s father, housed meetings in his farm for abolitionists, and Susan B. Anthony would often listen intently to them (Weisberg, 1988). While in New Rochelle, Anthony was disgusted when the people behaved like hypocrites by speaking of equality among black and white, yet throwing a fuss when an African American man sat in the meeting-house (Weisberg, 1988). While still in New Rochelle, three African American women visited the Quaker convention, yet were not allowed a place to sit at, and Anthony made it a point to be friendly to the women, even writing a letter to an acquaintance praising how nice it was to simply be around the women (Weisberg, 1988). When with a friend, Anthony stayed at Mrs.Walters, who hired a slave from her owner for eight dollars, and Anthony was furious to be staying at a place that condoned slavery (Barry, 1988). Once, Anthony constructed an operation to collect signatures that would convince Congress to put an end to slavery. When she was in Richmond, Virginia, Anthony aided slaves in the Underground Railroad. After attending one of Ida Wells’s lectures, Anthony was invited to stay at Miss Well’s place for a while, and …show more content…
ANTHONY 6 Anthony believed that women deserved an education. During a discussion with her brother-in-law, Aaron, Anthony remarked that she was learning algebra, and when Aaron retorted that women should stick with cooking biscuits, Anthony quipped that they could do both. When Anthony took a role as headmistress for females at Canajoharie Academy around Albany, New York, she was happy that she could further the education of girls (Barry, 1988). At an 1853 New York State Teachers’ meeting, Anthony commented how women were not viewed as intelligent enough to be doctors or lawyers, something that disgusted Anthony (Kendall, n.d.). Anthony annually urged the New York State Teachers’ Conventions to consider teaching both males and females in the same classrooms together, and also to permitting women to colleges along with men. Later on in her life, Anthony convinced President Hill to allow a young woman, Helen Wilkinson, to become a freshman in college by promising that Anthony would pay for Wilkinson’s expenses, which she ended up being able to do, although she had to pay for some of the $100,000 debt with her life
Women did not always have the right to vote. It wasn’t until a woman named Susan B. Anthony devoted her life to fighting for the rights of women that the issue of women voting was ever truly thought about. On top of driving people to think about the rights of women, Anthony also drove people to consider the rights of African Americans and fought for temperance. Susan B. Anthony, as an evangelist, believed in equality for all people and devoted her life to fighting for abolition and woman’s rights. Susan B. Anthony is remembered today for her fight for the equality of all people.
Susan B. Anthony was raised in a Quaker house with her family. Lucy Anthony …show more content…
Anthony was appalled when she heard fugitive slaves tell their tales of life in the South (Weisberg, 1988). Daniel Anthony, Susan B. Anthony’s father, housed meetings in his farm for abolitionists, and Susan B. Anthony would often listen intently to them (Weisberg, 1988). While in New Rochelle, Anthony was disgusted when the people behaved like hypocrites by speaking of equality among black and white, yet throwing a fuss when an African American man sat in the meeting-house (Weisberg, 1988). While still in New Rochelle, three African American women visited the Quaker convention, yet were not allowed a place to sit at, and Anthony made it a point to be friendly to the women, even writing a letter to an acquaintance praising how nice it was to simply be around the women (Weisberg, 1988). When with a friend, Anthony stayed at Mrs.Walters, who hired a slave from her owner for eight dollars, and Anthony was furious to be staying at a place that condoned slavery (Barry, 1988). Once, Anthony constructed an operation to collect signatures that would convince Congress to put an end to slavery. When she was in Richmond, Virginia, Anthony aided slaves in the Underground Railroad. After attending one of Ida Wells’s lectures, Anthony was invited to stay at Miss Well’s place for a while, and …show more content…
ANTHONY 6 Anthony believed that women deserved an education. During a discussion with her brother-in-law, Aaron, Anthony remarked that she was learning algebra, and when Aaron retorted that women should stick with cooking biscuits, Anthony quipped that they could do both. When Anthony took a role as headmistress for females at Canajoharie Academy around Albany, New York, she was happy that she could further the education of girls (Barry, 1988). At an 1853 New York State Teachers’ meeting, Anthony commented how women were not viewed as intelligent enough to be doctors or lawyers, something that disgusted Anthony (Kendall, n.d.). Anthony annually urged the New York State Teachers’ Conventions to consider teaching both males and females in the same classrooms together, and also to permitting women to colleges along with men. Later on in her life, Anthony convinced President Hill to allow a young woman, Helen Wilkinson, to become a freshman in college by promising that Anthony would pay for Wilkinson’s expenses, which she ended up being able to do, although she had to pay for some of the $100,000 debt with her life