Susan B Anthony Essay

“ There never will be complete equality until women themselves help make laws and elect lawmakers”.Susan B. Anthony known as Susan Brownell Anthony, was raised in a Quaker home,her family believed in the equality of the sexes and that women should receive an education. Elizabeth Cady Stanton,a friend of Susan, was a married women,who had children,she opted for marriage and family. Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton together fought for the rights of women,abolition of slavery and for co-education to be established. A decade before the civil war broke out,women’s rights achieved a high level of visibility after the convention at Seneca Falls.Many women became interested in this movement. Instead of working toward becoming an abolitionist,
she became apart of the Temperance Movement. The Temperance Movement was an organization that wanted to put an end to alcohol.Elizabeth learned many skills of political organizing in Abolitionist Movement and Susan learned these skills in the Temperance Movement. At first the Temperance Movement did not specifically support rights for women. Later Susan joined the Daughters of Temperance.Susan as president of the Daughters of Temperance was invited to the New York state Temperance.
A male told her she was invited here to listen not to speak.Susan believed it was a rerun of the Anti-Slavery Convention so she and her followers walked out and made a separate organization where males could join,this organization was called the Women’s State Temperance Society.Susan became frustrated with the males so in 1853 this lead Susan B. Anthony to focus on getting women’s rights. Susan attended third National Rights Convention where she began to work close with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Stanton soon realized that her and Susan would become a great team.First issue that Stanton and Anthony worked on was property rights for women.The Married Women’s Property Act was passed in New York in 1848.Even though the act was passed women could not still sell their property and wages that they earned.First major struggle for Stanton and Susan for women’s rights after Seneca Falls was petitioning for married women’s property rights.Susan armed with petitions went from door to door asking for signatures. These petitions asked New York legislature to pass a law giving married women the same rights as men to write a will,keep earnings and have guardianship over their children. With so many signatures of the petition the legislature allowed Stanton give a speech for the bill.Stanton did poorly of speech
. On March of 1860 the New York State legislature passed an amendment to the Women’s Property Act,this allowed women and wives to keep earnings.After the Civil War,Susan discouraged that the people working for the Negro Suffer were were willing to continue to exclude women from voting rights.Anthony became more focus on Women Suffrage in 1868,Susan and Stanton started a newspaper called the Revolution.Stanton was the publisher.Susan believed that the paper was much needed for women to “make their own claim in their own time”. The Revolution newspaper fell after 2 years. Susan not only fought for the rights of women to to own property and keep their keepings, she fought for the abolition of slavery.In 1856 ,Anthony became an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. Anthony would arrange meetings and make posters and also make speeches in a syracuse,her image was dragged through the streets. In 1863,Stanton and Anthony organized a Women’s National Loyal League, to support and petition for the Thirteenth Amendment to outlaw slavery. Both Anthony and Stanton campaigned for citizenship for any race and the right to vote for blacks and women using the 14th Amendment and the 15th Amendment.Stanton and Anthony lost hope when it excluded women. But,Anthony continued to fight on for equal rights for all citizens of any race or of they have been enslaved at one point. Anthony in her newspaper “The Revolution”,she attacked racial prejudice. In 1859, Anthony made a speech at a State Teacher’s Convention,she argued for co-education.Anthony stated that “ There was no differences between the minds of men and women”.Susan called for equal opportunities of education for women and all races. She called for schools ,colleges and universities to open doors to women and to people who have been enslaved. Anthony also campaigned for children that have been enslaved to be able to attend public schools. In the1890s, Anthony served on the board of trustees of Rochester’s State Industrial School,she campaigned for co-education and equal opportunities for boys and girls.In the 1890s,Anthony raised a lot of money in pledges saying that she would ensure admittance to the University of Rochester.At the end at the last minute Anthony put up a cash valve of her life insurance policy. So the University had no choice but to admit women for the first time in 1900. Although, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton fought for the rights for women,abolition of slavery and for co-education to be established.The right for women to vote was not given to women until the death of Susan B. Anthony in 1920.