An Essay About Susan B Anthony

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Susan B. Anthony was an abolitionist, suffragist, educational reformer, labor activist, and temperance worker. Susan Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. She was raised in a Quaker family.
After they moved to Rochester in 1845 the family became interested in the anti-slavery movement. Anti-slavery Quakers met at a farm almost every Sunday, and Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison sometimes came to the meetings. Susan's brothers Daniel and Merritt were abolitionists in Kansas. Susan B. Anthony was raised a Quaker and her family believed drinking liquor was sinful. When Susan was working as head of the girls department at Canajoharie Academy she joined the Daughters of Temperance. They were a group of women who warned people of the effects of drinking on families and campaigned for stronger alcohol laws. She made her first public speech in 1848 at a Daughters of Temperance supper. Susan wanted to change they way women dressed so she cut her hair and wore the bloomer costume for a year but realized it didn't help her other causes she supported. In the 1850s Susan became more interested in women's rights. In the early 1850s she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Seneca Falls. They became lifelong friends. In 1852 she attended her first woman's rights convention in Syracuse, New York. In 1853 she went to the state teachers convention and said for women to be accepted for more jobs and for better pay for women teachers. She also asked for women to have a say at the convention and to get committee positions. In 1856 Susan became a part of the American Anti-Slavery Society and helped arrange meetings, made speeches, and she also put up posters. She was approached by hostile mobs, threats, and things thrown ...

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...0 signatures from 26 states, but Congress didn't consider the signatures. In the 1890s Susan served on the board of trustees of Rochester's State Industrial School wanting equal treatment and opportunity for boys and girls. In the 1890s Susan raised $50,000 in pledges to make sure the women will be admitted to the University of Rochester. In an effort to meet the deadline she put up the cash value of her life insurance policy. The University was forced to make a promise and women were finally admitted for the first time in 1900. She went to every congress from 1869 to 1906 to ask for a women's rights amendment. When Susan was 80 in 1900 she retired as President of NAWSA. Susan B. Anthony died in 1906 at her home on Madison Street in Rochester. Women finally got the right to vote with the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920, but is known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.

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