Susan B Anthony

Susan Brownell Anthony

"Susan B Anthony was a pioneer crusader for the Women Suffrage Movement in the the United States...Her work helped pave the way for the Nineteenth Amendment...to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote."-History.com & Bio.com
Born in February 15,1820-Adams,Massachusetts
Died in March 13,1906-Rochester,New York

Early Life Before the Women's Suffrage Movement...

Susan and her family was involved in the abolitionist and temperance movements. In 1845, her family moved to a farm in Rochester, New York where Quakers met at their farm almost every Sundays for meetings. Daniel and Merit Anthony were in Kansas helped stopping slavery. Sometimes Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison would be in the meetings in the farm. Susan was also a teacher in Canajoharie, New York in 1848. Male teachers at that time had more money earned than women. In 1856, Susan was in an agent for the American Anti-Society Association. Fighting against alcohol,she believed that drinking alcohol was very sinful and she made her first speech at the Daughter of Temperance dinner publicly. Susan joined the daughter of Temperance when she was working head of the girl's department at the Canajoharie Academy. In 1851, Susan was introduced to Elizabeth Cady Stanton by Amelia Bloomer and soon worked together when they meet each other at the Seneca Falls convention to fight for women's rights. In 1853, they both "founded the Women's State Temperance Society with the goal of petitioning the state legislature to pass a law limiting the state liquor."-Burst Marketing
Which the legislature held 28,000 signatures but the paper was rejected to the petition because most signatures were made by women and children. "In 1870, Susan supported the Women's Christian Temperance Union...she believed that women needed to vote so that politicians would listen and pay attention to them.."-Burst Marketing
Susan also formed and was elected president of the Workingwomen's Central Association which she was a labor activist.

When She died...

"She died at 12:40 o' clock this morning.."-New York Times
Her physician was Dr.M.S. Ricker who said she had died of a heart disease known as the Valvular heart disease and pneumonia of both lungs for the last 6 or 7 years. She became ill when she was on her way home from the National Suffrage Convention in Baltimore. She also had neuralgia on Feb. 18, 1906. In March 5,1906 both of her lungs got affected of the pneumonia.
Susan said when she was about to die to Anna Shaw,"To think I have had more than 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel." In recognition of her dedication and hard work, the U.S Treasury put one dollar coins in 1979, making her the first women to be honored."-History.com

Being in the Women's Suffrage Movement...

1850s
-was at the Syracuse convention where Lucy Stone made a speech that convinced her to be involved in the Women's Suffrage Movement
-demanded equal pay for women teachers in the State Teachers Pay

1860s
-organized the Women's National Loyal League in 1863
-made the American Equal Rights Association in 1866 with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
-was with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone on a trip to Kansas where they got 9,000 votes to stop Women's Suffrage in 1867
-created the Revolution newspaper in 1868
-made the National Women Suffrage Association in 1869 with Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1870s
-voted illegally in a presidential election in 1872 and was held trail in Canadaigua, New York, also had a $100 fine but refused to pay
1880s
-published the volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage
-was the head of the U.S delegation to the international Council of Women in 1888
1900s
-retired of the National American Women Suffrage Association and passed the presidency position to Carrie Chapman Catt in 1902
-written The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Reader
-wrote The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony

Extra Information...

Susan's Trips to Campaign For Women's Rights
-California-1871
-Michigan-1874
-Colorado-1877
-World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago-1893
-London-1899
-Berlin-1904
-Lewis and Clark's Exposition in Portland, Oregon-1905

Susan B. Anthony Birthplace Museum was opened in 2012
Susan learned how to write and read excellent in age 3
In 1999, the Susan B. Anthony coin had been turned into the Sacajawea coin because it wasn't popular.
Susan believed that their should be rights to women on the subject of abortion. Some men wanted women to abort their baby. At the olden days, abortion was very dangerous that could endanger the woman's life and health. Susan believed that the .."success of women's equality and freedom would end the need for abortion.."-Jone Johnson Lewis
Susan never got married.

Quotes By Susan B. Anthony

"Men, their rights, and nothing more;women, their rights, and nothing less."-The Revolution paper motto
"I think the girl who is able to earn her own way of living and earn her own and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet."
"The day may be approaching when the whole world will recognize women as the equal of men."
"I declare to you that women must not depend upon the protection of men, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand."
"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain."
"No man is good enough to govern any women without her consent."
"There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers."
"Failure is impossible."
"Join the union,girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work."
"Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!"
"I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy....This is rather a difference from receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses." -working as an agent in the American Anti'Slavery Society
"I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not I want to go."
"Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals."
"I always distrust people who know so much about what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires."
"When a women destroys the life of her unborn child, it is a sign that, by education or circumstances, she has been greatly wrong."
"It was we, the people, not we, the white male citizens, nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people who formed this union."
"I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women."
"Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all work the work for women! There is so much yet to be done."

Pictures Of Susan B Anthony

Susan B. Anthony dollar coins

Susan B. Anthony Birth Place Museum

Another Susan B. Anthony Birth Place Museum

The History of Woman Suffrage Books

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton