Susan B. Anthony

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“Independence is happiness.” A large supporter of women’s rights and one of the reasons women have many rights today; Susan B. Anthony was born in February 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts into a family of Quakers where women were considered equal to men. As a young woman she had been a teacher until she became involved in the temperance movement, from that time on she worked for women’s rights after she realized women were not really treated equally while in the temperance movement. Anthony worked for women’s rights but also incorporated it into other movements, temperance, labor, and education. Susan B. Anthony had a significant impact on women’s rights in American history, through organizing and participating in organizations, writing books and a newspaper, her partnership with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, voting illegally, and petitioning against U.S. Congress.
In 1863 Anthony organized a Women’s National Loyal League with her friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton. They did this in order to support the Thirteenth Amendment that made slavery illegal. After doing this they campaigned full citizenship for all people in the United States, but the government excluded women from when they granted full citizenship to people. From 1869-1890 she was a founder and officer of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, together she and Stanton formed it in May of 1869.When Anthony became president of the National American Suffrage Association in the 1890’s she supported the importance of getting the support of organized labor. She also supported Florence Kelley and Jane Addams in their work in Chicago, also Gail Laughlin in her journey seeking protection for women who work. When the suffrage movement split in 1869 the Association continued to cam...

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... jury to find her guilty without discussion and they did not get to discuss the charges. Although she was fined $100 and made to pay courtroom fees and refused to pay she was not put into prison for it.
On Madison Street in Rochester Susan B. Anthony died at the age of 86 in 1906. Susan B. Anthony was someone who wanted everyone to be able to have the same rights, abilities, and chances to do something great as anyone else. That’s why she not only campaigned a lot for women’s rights but also racial rights. 14 years after Anthony passed away the Nineteenth Amendment was put out allowing all women in America of age to vote, the Amendment is also known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. Although Anthony was not alive when the Amendment was passed we owe a lot of the credit for it being passed to her because of how hard she tried to get full citizenship for everyone.

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