Today it’s impossible to imagine a time when woman couldn’t vote. It’s a civic duty we take for granted not realizing the amount of tenacity it took to accomplish. The most prominent leading woman in the rebellion for womans right to vote was none other than Susan B. Anthony. A relentless woman’s rights activist, Susan B. Anthony used her fearless mindset to transform woman’s rights. Anthony’s ability to lead not only with her voice but with her actions left her legacy that set her apart making her a perpetual and successful leader. This essay will explore the ways Anthony helped to make a change for woman through her defying acts of revolution which was essential in gaining the attention, support, and respect needed for woman in the nineteenth
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She started working as a teacher to help provide for her family, where she discovered that she was destined to prompt a change for woman while noticing the issues of inequality between men and woman’s rights. Her long list of endeavors includes becoming the president of Daughters of Temperance. She also joined the teachers union in New York to fight for equal pay rights. She continued her involvement with the temperance movement, and fighting for equal wages a violation of slavery and suffrage during the 1850s and 1860s. In 1856 she became an agent for the American anti-slavery society. As an outstanding woman’s rights activist, Susan B. Antony is unafraid to fail and unafraid to say what needed to be said to fight for what needed a change in woman’s rights. Her ability to have an effect and lead not only with her voice but with her actions is what set her apart and made her a unique …show more content…
Anthony was an essential step in the fight for woman’s rights and equality. Anthony was an influential leader because she used her words and her messages to invoke the inner leader in others. She was undaunted and valiant even at the possibility of failure where she states in her famous quote “failure is impossible” which depicts the driving compassion present within Susan B. Anthony that was so strong she believes success was inevitable if you use the help of others, worked hard enough and never gave up. Despite her facing failure and abuse she still traveled the nation lecturing, fighting, and speaking out for woman’s rights. After being told for many years that woman’s rights were never going to change, Anthony and activist friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. Anthony used her newspaper “The Revolution” to reach others with her words of courage and wisdom. She published what she believed no matter the rallies or resentment that came from others about her work. In 1877 Anthony gathered petitions from 26 states with 10,000 signatures supporting woman’s suffrage. She presented it to Congress and they disregarded her but because Anthony didn’t believe in failure, she appeared before Congress from 1869 to 1906 to ask for the passage of a woman suffrage
She started working as a teacher to help provide for her family, where she discovered that she was destined to prompt a change for woman while noticing the issues of inequality between men and woman’s rights. Her long list of endeavors includes becoming the president of Daughters of Temperance. She also joined the teachers union in New York to fight for equal pay rights. She continued her involvement with the temperance movement, and fighting for equal wages a violation of slavery and suffrage during the 1850s and 1860s. In 1856 she became an agent for the American anti-slavery society. As an outstanding woman’s rights activist, Susan B. Antony is unafraid to fail and unafraid to say what needed to be said to fight for what needed a change in woman’s rights. Her ability to have an effect and lead not only with her voice but with her actions is what set her apart and made her a unique …show more content…
Anthony was an essential step in the fight for woman’s rights and equality. Anthony was an influential leader because she used her words and her messages to invoke the inner leader in others. She was undaunted and valiant even at the possibility of failure where she states in her famous quote “failure is impossible” which depicts the driving compassion present within Susan B. Anthony that was so strong she believes success was inevitable if you use the help of others, worked hard enough and never gave up. Despite her facing failure and abuse she still traveled the nation lecturing, fighting, and speaking out for woman’s rights. After being told for many years that woman’s rights were never going to change, Anthony and activist friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869. Anthony used her newspaper “The Revolution” to reach others with her words of courage and wisdom. She published what she believed no matter the rallies or resentment that came from others about her work. In 1877 Anthony gathered petitions from 26 states with 10,000 signatures supporting woman’s suffrage. She presented it to Congress and they disregarded her but because Anthony didn’t believe in failure, she appeared before Congress from 1869 to 1906 to ask for the passage of a woman suffrage