Susan Graham a Womans Life and Love Review
Susan B. Anthony
Library of Congress
Susan B. Anthony(1820-1906) is perhaps the nearly widely known suffragist of her generation and has become an icon of the woman's suffrage motility. Anthony traveled the land to requite speeches, circulate petitions, and organize local women's rights organizations.
Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts. After the Anthony family moved to Rochester, New York in 1845, they became active in the antislavery movement. Antislavery Quakers met at their farm most every Sunday, where they were sometimes joined by Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison. Later two of Anthony's brothers, Daniel and Merritt, were anti-slavery activists in the Kansas territory.
In 1848 Susan B. Anthony was working as a instructor in Canajoharie, New York and became involved with the teacher'due south union when she discovered that male teachers had a monthly salary of $10.00, while the female teachers earned $2.fifty a month. Her parents and sister Marry attended the 1848 Rochester Woman'southward Rights Convention held August 2.
Anthony'south feel with the teacher'due south union, temperance and antislavery reforms, and Quaker upbringing, laid fertile ground for a career in women's rights reform to grow. The career would begin with an introduction to Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
On a street corner in Seneca Falls in 1851, Amelia Bloomer introduced Susan B. Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and later Stanton recalled the moment: "There she stood with her good hostage face and genial grin, dressed in grey silk, chapeau and all the aforementioned color, relieved with stake blueish ribbons, the perfection of neatness and sobriety. I liked her thoroughly, and why I did non at once invite her home with me to dinner, I do not know."
Meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton was probably the beginning of her interest in women'south rights, but it is Lucy Rock'southward speech communication at the 1852 Syracuse Convention that is credited for convincing Anthony to join the women's rights movement.
In 1853 Anthony campaigned for women'due south property rights in New York State, speaking at meetings, collecting signatures for petitions, and lobbying the state legislature. Anthony circulated petitions for married women'south belongings rights and woman suffrage. She addressed the National Women'south Rights Convention in 1854 and urged more petition campaigns. In 1854 she wrote to Matilda Joslyn Gage that "I know slavery is the all-arresting question of the mean solar day, still we must push button forward this neat primal question, which underlies all others."
Past 1856 Anthony became an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society, arranging meetings, making speeches, putting up posters, and distributing leaflets. She encountered hostile mobs, armed threats, and things thrown at her. She was hung in effigy, and in Syracuse her image was dragged through the streets.
At the 1856 National Women's Rights Convention, Anthony served on the business committee and spoke on the necessity of the dissemination of printed matter on women's rights. She named The Lily and The Woman's Advocate, and said they had some documents for auction on the platform.
Stanton and Anthony founded the American Equal Rights Association and in 1868 became editors of its newspaper, The Revolution. The masthead of the newspaper proudly displayed their motto, "Men, their rights, and nothing more than; women, their rights, and naught less."
Past 1869 Stanton, Anthony and others formed the National Woman Suffrage Association and focused their efforts on a federal adult female'southward suffrage amendment. In an endeavour to challenge suffrage, Anthony and her three sisters voted in the 1872 Presidential ballot. She was arrested and put on trial in the Ontario Courthouse, Canandaigua, New York. The judge instructed the jury to observe her guilty without any deliberations, and imposed a $100 fine. When Anthony refused to pay a $100 fine and court costs, the judge did not sentence her to prison fourth dimension, which ended her take a chance of an appeal. An appeal would have allowed the suffrage movement to accept the question of women's voting rights to the Supreme Courtroom, but it was not to be.
From 1881 to 1885, Anthony joined Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage in writing the History of Woman Suffrage.
Equally a final tribute to Susan B. Anthony, the Nineteenth Amendment was named the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. It was ratified in 1920.
Source: https://www.nps.gov/wori/learn/historyculture/susan-b-anthony.htm
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