Anthony the Great

Can people consider America a free country if not all the citizens have the same rights? A free country needs free people. The citizens of the United States of America (mainly the women) have many more rights than they did 150 years ago. Susan B. Anthony (see Appendix A) audaciously led the United States in the direction of equal rights, and her legacy aided in the fulfillment of her goals and greatest desires. Susan B. Anthony’s early life and upbringing had a pointed influence on her beliefs…

Anthony. The two joined together and made a great team. Stanton was considered the brains of the team, and Anthony the hands and feet to promote Stanton’s ideas to share with the world. The pair edited and published a woman’s rights newspaper called the Revolution. The paper was published from January 8…

obedient slaves and did whatever their husbands said. Women were treated poorly. Women were portrayed as delicate flowers but they were treated like property. In other words, women were considered not to be even human. For instance, to be a women was a great mystery to men, who did not…

Susan B Anthony had once said. “Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less”. (Brainy Quotes) During the time of 1848 there was a group of women that gathered in Seneca Falls, New York; to discuss the issues of women’s rights. At that moment men's rights were exposed to many countries at the time, no matter the wealth that they had. Women began fighting for equal rights. The women got together and talked about that all the women's deserve all the rights and…

officially abolished until 1865 and even after that, blacks still faced discrimination and segregation for many years afterwards. In 1914, World War I started which dragged many countries including the U.S. into fighting. Even though all of these are great examples of dissent during this era, the one that is equally important and needs to be spotlighted more is the U.S. Women’s Suffrage Movement. The U.S. Women’s Suffrage Movement is one of the most influential and relevant dissent movements in…

their sex or race was. She fought for equality for all people. She penned many of the great historical documents of the American Women’s Suffrage Movement and her exact words are used in the nineteenth amendment of the Bill of Rights. She also wrote many controversial articles in national magazines and her most notorious publication The Woman’s Bible. She was the voice behind fellow Suffragette, Susan B Anthony. Stanton wrote many of Anthony’s speeches while harnessing a beautiful and lifelong…

concerted, effort women would still be kept to the home, unable to own property, obtain legal representation, control their rate of reproduction, or receive equal pay and wages. Even if women still aren’t on equal footing with men, they have made great societal progress through action and activism. The first half of this activism focused on the legal status of women as seen in the construction of the Married Women’s Property Acts in the early 19th century, the election of Jeannette Rankin to…

There are many reason why the invention of the bicycle changed women’s lives, contributing to the individualistic thought that brought forth waves of feminism. Susan B. Anthony wrote, “That which made me succeed with the bicycle was precisely what had gained me a measure of success in life”; in The life and work of Susan B. Anthony: including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years. A story of the evolution of the status of woman, she equates her…

Partnership, states facts about Elizabeth, it also states facts about another woman who helped women have rights. That women, is Susan B. Anthony. So the article, A Powerful Partnership, does not include information on the contribution of Elizabeth Cady Stanton herself. It includes information on Elizabeth and Susan. That same article, says that they were a great team and that they shared many ideas together. It talks about two people’s contributions, not just one person’s contributions, which…

1920, women did not have the right to vote. Before 1920, when women were not allowed to vote, in Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming, women were already to vote. Women in Indiana were unable to vote until the 19th Amendment was confirmed. Susan B. Anthony and other activists, formed organizations that helped raise public awareness that influenced the government to give voting rights to women. After 70 years, women became victorious with the right to vote. Women weren’t allowed to vote until…