Susan B. Anthony

The NWSA became the largest and most influential suffrage organization in the United States. Susan B. Anthony was the dominant figure of the organization from the year of its foundation to 1900. Susan B. Anthony worked hard to give women the right to vote. on the elections of 1872, she exercised her citizen right to vote but was sent to trial on 1873, for voting illegally. Before her trial Susan B. Anthony gave a speech that said: Friends…

Anthony, who was a Massachusetts teacher. Susan B. Anthony was an abolitionist, education reforming, labor activist, and a suffragette. She advocated greatly for the woman’s right to vote. She was a huge reformer and founded organizations such as the “American Equal Rights Association”…

Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts on February 16, 1820. She was raised in a Quaker household with seven siblings and her parents, Lucy Anthony and Daniel Anthony. Her father owned a cotton mill. Susan had strong feelings about equality from a young age and worked on social issues for most of her life. Susan was a strong and stubborn individual who was determined to achieve equality for all. Throughout her life, she worked towards it. In 1826, her family left for New York and…

change from this tradition and way of life. Women had their first gathering of women’s right in Seneca Falls, New York in July of 1848 (The Women’s’ Rights Movement, 2007). Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was the organizer of the gathering later met Susan B. Anthony and together they served as women right activist. That is how the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) developed. Another woman, Lucy Stone, created the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA). These two associations were the…

When the constitution was drafted and signed in 1787 , it limited the rights women were given. Only men were seen as “persons”, whereas women were seen as lesser. For many years women were denied basic rights that men were given, such as the right to vote, the right to own land, and were not allowed to have the same jobs as men. Women more often than not took care of the house and children while the man of the house went out and worked. If women did get a job their choices were limited. This…

about universal suffrage in America, until 1880. About that time, one of her most important speeches, ‘Our Girls’, came into play mostly talking about gender equality. Also in 1880, she stopped leturing and became dedicated to her writing. Helping Anthony write two volumes of their “History of Women Suffrage”. She also co-authored “The Women’s Bible”, in 1895. October 26, 1902, Stanton died in her home from heart failure in her sleep. She felt as if she had a life that was meant to mean…

themselves were the most involved in fighting for their right to vote, but there were a few men who stood strong with women to gain the rights, women deserved. Some important people involved in the movement include Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a leader figure in the early…

Women in the religious groups started to see the spread of equality among slaves. The majority of the well-known women were Quakers, such as, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Anne Knight, Angelina Grimke and Sarah Moore Grimke. “Anne Knight was born into a Quaker family in Essex and took active roles in the Anti-Slavery campaigns.” Around the 15th century, Quakers originally started in Philadelphia…

From being bullied growing up and openly speaking about it, she has helped the lives of many children who feel like she felt by reassuring them that things will get better. I think Laverne Cox positively pioneered the transgender role in film. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were a couple of badass women that I wish I could go back in time to…

1920 granted women the right to vote in American elections. Though it was a huge milestone in the quest for women’s suffrage, it omits a complex discussion of its true origins in the mid to late 1800s. Many associate the movement with names like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Additionally, places like Seneca Falls, New York are tagged as the birthplace of the Women’s Rights Movement in America. In The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898, Lisa…