Susan b. Anthony(February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906)

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Early life

• Born in Adams Massachusetts on February 15, 1820

• Brought up in a Quaker family

• Second of seven children

• Family owned a cotton mill

• Attended boarding school in Philadelphia in 1837

• Later forced to move home and work as a teacher in order to help pay off her fathers debt

Abolitionist

• Family moved to Rochester, NY in 1845

• Became involved in the anti-slave movement

• Anti-slavery meetings were held weekly at the Anthony family farm.

• 1856-Susan became an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society

• 1863-She teamed up with Elizabeth Stanton and organized a Women's National Loyal League

Educational Reformer

• 1846- Susan took her first paid position and became the head of the girls’ department at Cnajoharie Academy

• 1853- at the state teachers convention Susan asked for better pay for women teachers

• 1859- spoke at a teachers convention and argued for co-education- claimed there’s no difference between minds of men and women

• 1890- raised $50,000 in pledges to ensure women could be admitted to the University of Rochester

• Women were later admitted to the University in 1900

Temperance worker• Joined the Daughters of Temperance

and campaigned for stronger liquor laws.

• 1848- Anthony made her first speech at a Daughter of Temperance supper

• 1849- elected President of Rochester's Daughter of Temperance branch

• 1853- Susan and Stanton founded the Women's State Temperance Society

• Tried petitioning the state legislature for limiting liquor sales

• Legislature rejected because most of the 28,000 signatures were women

• http://www.biography.com/people/susan-b-anthony-194905/videos/susan-b-anthony-the-quaker-belief-2080101528

Suffragist

• 1852- attended her first women's rights convention

• 1866- Anthony and Stanton founded the American Equal Rights Association

• 1868- Stanton and Anthony started publishing The Revolution in Rochester newspaper

• 1869- Suffrage movement split. Wyoming became first territory to give Women the right to vote

• 1872- Anthony and her sisters were arrested for voting

• 1887- Both women's suffrage organizations merged as the National American Women Suffrage Association with Anthony as vice president and Stanton as pres.

• Campaigned across the country- many states gradually began to give women some legal status

Later Life

• 1900- at age 80, Anthony retired as the president of the association

• 1904- Anthony presided over the International Council of Women in Berlin

• 1905- Met with president Roosevelt to lobby for women's rights amendment

• 1906- Susan B. Anthony died

• 1920- All women received the right to vote thanks to the 19th amendment A.K.A.- the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.

“To think I had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, & then to die without it seems so cruel.” –Susan B Anthony

References

• Davis,Allen F. “Anthony, Susan Brownell (1820-1906).” Encyclopedia Americana. Grolier online, 2013. Web. Apr. 2013.

• Archives.gov/exhibits/documented-rights/exhibits/section3/details/susan-b-anthony.html

• http://www.biography.com/people/susan-b-anthony-the-quaker-belief-208010152,online,2013.Web.23.Apr

• http//www.noblebiographies.com/An-Ba/Anthony-Susan-B.html.Web.23 apr.2013.