Susan B. Anthony, born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts, prepared her life for a task of fighting for women political rights. Susan B. Anthony was surrounded from earliest childhood by women who earned their own livelihoods. Susan B. Anthony had the privilege to learn how to read at the age of four; not too many women could read. These things influenced Susan B. Anthony because it made her equal to men. Susan B. Anthony became one of America’s most celebrated proponents of women's political rights, especially the right to vote in federal elections. She was devoted to her family and she would also devote her life to the support of women and would encourage many families to be members of the women’s rights movement. There were important people in her life that influenced her such as her father, Daniel B. Anthony. Anthony, a Quaker farmer who was an abolitionist, made her believe that even women can do as much as men could. And believed in formal education for boys and for girls. Susan B. Anthony attended public school until her male teacher reached long division and did not want to teach her any more because he saw her developing and he felt intimidated because he barely knew how to do it. So her father Daniel Anthony took her out of the school district and enrolled her in a Quaker school called Deborah Moulson Female Seminary. That was also not a good fit, so, he took her out and home schooled her. In the book, Not for Ourselves Alone the authors states, “Daniel had strong religious feelings that toys, games and music were all barred from his house for fear they might distract the children from what is called the inner light”. The inner light was the God who lived in every soul. Growing up with this belief “the inner li...
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...o encouraged her to do this and not give up no matter what the consequences were.
Truman, Margaret. Women of Courage. New York: Margaret Truman Daniel,1976.
This book showed a brief bio about Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. I'm going to be using this in my essay because it explained when and why they came together and how they accomplished their goal, which was women’s rights.
Ward,Geoffrey and Burns,Ken. Not For Ourselves Alone: The story of Elizabeth Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. New York: Alfred A. Knopf,1999.
This book is about the Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony, and how they came together and fought for women’s rights. I am going to be using this in my essay because I found it important how two ladies came together and formed an organization for fighting for women’s rights and no matter what the consequences were they never gave up.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were some of the most powerful women in the U.S. in the 1800s. These two women had many things in common. They were both abolitionist, speakers, and authors. Susan herself was the NAWSA’s first president, and Elizabeth’s life efforts helped her bring up the 19th Amendment. I stated that everybody had the right to vote. Both, of these women had or were apart of a company were Susan managed and Elizabeth wrote. They were a powerful team they actually printed an illegal paper called the “Revolution”. They actually met each other for the first time in 1851.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the most renowned women to lead campaigns for women’s rights. Her efforts were focused on "opportunities for women, for married women’s property rights, the right to divorce, and the right to custody of children; her most radical demand was for women’s right to vote" (Davidson and Wagner-Martin 845). In general Stanton wished to instill independence and self-reliance in all women. Stanton was an inspiring orator of speeches including the Declaration of Sentiments as well as the book The Women’s Bible. Upon analysis of her speeches and other works, as well as gaining knowledge of her background, one is able to assume that personal experience strongly affected her writing, which illustrates her writing as representative in that it addressed inequality based on the issue of gender. Another factor that influenced her writing was the way in which she interpreted the great works, the Declaration of Independence and the Holy Bible. Noticing the obvious discrimination and guidelines set for women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton composed a new "women friendly" version of each that she called the Declaration of Sentiments and The Women’s Bible.
Susan B. Anthony was indeed a strong, driven, and disciplined woman who had a great desire and passion to abolish slavery. Upon meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton she became immersed in the women's rights movement, dedicating her life to obtaining equal rights for all. Many men pursued Susan but she never married, she did not want to be "owned" by a man. Instead she chose to dedicate her entire life to this cause.
Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist, writes about Susan B. Anthony 's teaching career and movements she was involved with, to show how Anthony got interested in the women 's right movement and how she helped the movement to grow. “Susan Brownell Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. Her father was an antislavery Quaker who started a home-school for his children after Anthony’s teacher refused to teach her long-division because she was a girl. At the age of seventeen, Anthony attended Deborah Moulson’s Quaker boarding school in Philadelphia. There, she saw a speech by the famous Quaker abolitionist Lucretia Mott, who left a profound impression on the eighteen year-old Anthony.”1 While Barry writes about how Anthony helped in women 's rights, she does not really go into depth about Anthony 's family religion2 or how Anthony 's parents played a major role in her life. However, Barry does mention the friendships Anthony formed with other women, like Lucy Stone, Angelina Grimke and Elizabeth Stanton, on the fight for legal and civil
Susan Brownell Anthony, being an abolitionist, educational reformer, labor activist, and organizer for woman suffrage, used her intellectual and confident mind to fight for parity. Anthony fought for women through campaigning for women’s rights as well as a suffragist for many around the nation. She had focused her attention on the need for women to reform law in their own interests, both to improve their conditions and to challenge the "maleness" of current law. Susan B. Anthony helped the abolitionists and fought for women’s rights to change the United States with her Quaker values and strong beliefs in equality.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton who is one of the famous women in the movement was born in 1815 in Johnstown, New York. She received her formal education in her college and an informal legal education by her father. On her honeymoon in London, she and Lucretia Mott were angry at the exclusion of the woman. And then they decided to call a woman’s right convention. And for the next 50 years, she played a leadership in Suffrage movement, which is getting the movement to get the right to vote. She wrote “The Declaration of Sentiments.” It was calling for changes in law and society like educational, legal, political, social and economic. She elevated women's status, and demanded the right to vote. In 1851, she met Susan B. Anthony. She is also the woman who was active for a woman right to vote. They were fantastically influential in the 19th Amendment.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an important element of the Women’s Rights Movement, but not many people know of her significance or contributions because she has been overshadowed by her long time associate and friend, Susan B. Anthony. However, I feel that she was a woman of great importance who was the driving force behind the 1848 Convention, played a leadership role in the women’s rights movement for the next fifty years, and in the words of Henry Thomas, “She was the architect and author of the movement’s most important strategies ad documents.”
In anaylsing the validity of this statement, “We are all benefiting from the great feminists who struggled and suffered and worked to give us everything women now enjoy.” it can be concluded that Stanton was a women who was able to reinvent and influence women’s rights all over the world. She was a feminist who encountered many struggles, leading and influencing thousands of women throughout her career. To this day her work is still remembered and recognised by all, as the right to vote becomes increasingly important in today’s world.
Susan B. Anthony was a prominent women’s rights activist and a social reformer. She dedicated her life to spread awareness of the danger and unfairness of social inequalities and slavery. She helped creating or advocating many US and International organizations. She lobbied the creation of laws to protect the rights of citizens regardless of their ethnicity or gender. She was "one of the most loved and hated women in the country. "Her opponents often described her as "nsexed, an unnatural creature that did not function as a true woman, one who devoted her life to a husband” (Barry). She passed away
Elizabeth Stanton was a social activist and was one of the originators of the women’s moment in the United States. Stanton was an Author of many books, she was also a wife and a mother 7 children . She campaigning for women 's right with an emphasis on women 's rights to vote. In this paper I will walk through some of Stanton’s major life events.
In the early development of America, the laws and regulations set in place caused the natural rights of many peoples to be infringed upon. Of the peoples who were denied rights were the women of the nation. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony paired together in order to change within society and the American government. They did this by holding conventions such as the convention in Seneca Falls entitled, Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. Also Elizabeth Stanton wrote her memoir, Eighty Years and More, in order to discuss her early life and how it provoked her to change the rights and freedoms that women receive. Stanton and Anthony prompt defied the values, norms, and customs that the American government and society was upholding by contradicting the concept of the time
Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s speech was very impactful thanks to her well thought-out address, emotionally impactful statements, and rhetorical devices. By using emotional, logical, and ethical appeals, she was able to persuade many, and show a first hand look at someone personally crippled by the lack of women’s rights in her time. Through her experience, she was able to give an exceptional speech conveying the deprivation of women in her time, changing society, and helping women reach equality in America.
The need for women’s rights began back in colonial America where women were referred to as “inferior beings”. This era, though it is not particularly noted for it’s feminist movements, did hold such people as Margaret Brent, who was a wealthy holder of land in Maryland and was a strong, but unsuccessful voice in securing a place for women in the legislature of the colony. It was also a period where Quakers, and many other individuals, such as famous American patriot, Thomas Paine supported the rights of women, but at the time it was not enough to make a significant difference and it wasn’t until the 19th century that women would get the real chance to make a difference.
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony. Dir. Ken Burns and
Susan B. Anthony was an activist for the Women’s Rights Movement. As a child, she was raised to be independent and outspoken. As a leader, she did just that. She stood up for what she believed in. Anthony organized, traveled, and spoke to people about what needed to be modified for women. Her parents were Quakers, which is a branch of christianity. They believed that all men and women should study, work, and live as equals (“Biography of Susan B. Anthony”). She adopted these thoughts and became a leader of the movement for women. She recognized her passion for women’s rights and dedicated her life as a suffragette, an advocate of women’s right to vote (“Biography of Susan B. Anthony”). A meeting with Elizabeth Cady Stanton led to lifelong friends in political organizing for women’s rights and women’s