Susan B Anthony Women's Rights
“Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.” (Teen Ink) Finally, 14 years after Susan B. Anthony died, women are finally able to vote (bio.com)! Everything she worked so hard for has finally paid off! Susan Brownwell Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts (Susan B. Anthony House; Encyclopedia of World Biography). Her parents, Lucy Anthony and Daniel Anthony had seven children (Teen Ink). Her family has always been politically active and were both quakers, who believed in the equality of men and women. They worked to end slavery, to limit and stop alcohol, to free slaves, and how equal rights. Her family is the reason she was so inspired to fight for women’s rights (history.com; Influential
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Global Relationships). Before she fought for equal rights, 26, she was a teacher and head of the girls’ department at Canajoharie Academy (Teen Ink). Whenever Susan B. Anthony was working at Canajoharie Academy, she was earning a total of $110 a year. After two years, Anthony went to the state teachers’ convention and spoke with people, trying to get more pay for women in the line of work. Susan once said, “Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.” After two years, she “called for equal educational opportunities for all regardless of race, and for all schools, colleges, and universities to open their doors to women and ex-slaves.” Until 1851, when she first started for women’s rights, Anthony devoted her time to the temperance movement. Sadly, the male members of the movement wouldn’t let her speak just because she was a woman. She soon realized that women had to win the right in public speaking and the right to vote before anything else could be accomplished (Teen Ink). She never married and instead traveled, spoke in public, and burnt the public opinion (Barry, Kathleen. Susan B. Anthony: a Biography of a Singular Feminist.). Anthony worked in groups that help support equality like the American Equal Rights Association (bio.com). She wrote and published a book with Stanton and Gage her book was the History of woman Suffrage in 1881, and the Women’s New York Temperance Society in
Global Relationships). Before she fought for equal rights, 26, she was a teacher and head of the girls’ department at Canajoharie Academy (Teen Ink). Whenever Susan B. Anthony was working at Canajoharie Academy, she was earning a total of $110 a year. After two years, Anthony went to the state teachers’ convention and spoke with people, trying to get more pay for women in the line of work. Susan once said, “Join the union, girls, and together say Equal Pay for Equal Work.” After two years, she “called for equal educational opportunities for all regardless of race, and for all schools, colleges, and universities to open their doors to women and ex-slaves.” Until 1851, when she first started for women’s rights, Anthony devoted her time to the temperance movement. Sadly, the male members of the movement wouldn’t let her speak just because she was a woman. She soon realized that women had to win the right in public speaking and the right to vote before anything else could be accomplished (Teen Ink). She never married and instead traveled, spoke in public, and burnt the public opinion (Barry, Kathleen. Susan B. Anthony: a Biography of a Singular Feminist.). Anthony worked in groups that help support equality like the American Equal Rights Association (bio.com). She wrote and published a book with Stanton and Gage her book was the History of woman Suffrage in 1881, and the Women’s New York Temperance Society in