Susan B. Anthony: The Women's Equal Rights Movement

Susan B. Anthony was an amazing women paved the way for us women to day in America. if it was not for her women would not have the rights and the freedom that they have today. B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820. she was raised in a Quaker household, where they believed that everyone should be treated equally. Her father was six generation Quaker and was a strong believer of equal rights. Anthony had an amazing education and later became a teacher. She went to work as a hard working teacher before she became a leading public figure in women’s voting rights movement and an abolitionist.

When Susan B. Anthony became twenty-six years old, she became head in charge of the girls at Canajoharie Academy. After two years of being at the academy, Anthony called for equal educational opportunities for all races, schools, colleges, and universities. she wanted women and ex-slaves to have

Both Anthony and Station shared a goal to end the discrimination between men and women. The both founded the American Equal Rights Associations, Station and Anthony both campaigned to get the women’s suffrage the right to vote. The Association split, in 1869. Anthony worked day and night for women rights. Anthony and fifteen others, including three of sisters, registered to vote. All sixteen of them got arrested. of these, Susan B. Anthony was the only women to go to court. Many famous feminist at the time, wanted the case to go to the supreme court. Anthony refused to post bail, but her lawyer convinced her anyway. she as later convicted and found guilty, Anthony refused to her court fees because she had been denied the right to defend herself to the court and the jury. Rather than going to jail for not paying court fees, Anthony was instead denied an appeal. after this situation took place, she spent 33 years, going before congress and the whole nation to get support for the women’s suffrage