112 30 August 2017 Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony‚ an American woman rights activist‚ devoted her life to racial‚ gender‚ and educational equality. Susan is one of the most famous women in American history. She played major roles in the woman’s suffrage movement and led the way for the 19th amendment‚ when woman won the right to vote. Sadly‚ the amendment was not added to the constitution until 14 years after her death. Here are three reasons why Susan B. Anthony is important. One
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their rights‚ and nothing more; women‚ their rights‚ and nothing less." (Anthony) Susan B. Anthony was a participant in many different political movements. Her career as an activist started with her participation in the temperance movement. Her inability to speak at temperance rallies led to her joining the women’s rights movement‚ and later other movements‚ including abolition and education reform (Susan B. Anthony House). Anthony had a large impact on american history during and after the antebellum
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On November 5th 1872‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ a suffragette‚ did the impossible. She marched up to the voting booth in Rochester‚ New York and tried to place a ballot for Ulysses S. Grant election of 1872. She was arrested before she could place the ballot into the voting booth‚ but this courageous act created a huge growth and push for The Women’s Suffrage movement of 1920. In The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell‚ Gladwell explains the concept of Tipping Points and their effects on global epidemics.
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Linden B Johnson had 3 heart attacks during his lifetime. His wife was nick named Lady Bird‚ and he was the 36th President Johnson was the 1st of 5 kids born to Samuel Johnson and Rebekah Baines. He grew up in a 3-room house on the Pedernales River in a poorer part of the town. He taught briefly at a Houston high school‚ and in 1930 campaigned for Texas senator Welly Hopkins. Johnson married in 1934 and had 2 girls with Claudia Alta Taylor. IN 1937 Johnson worked in the House of representatives
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Susan B. Anthony was a women’s rights activist and an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. She fought for the rights of women and basically anyone else that wasn’t treated equally. She was born to a Quaker family that was neither prejudice nor biased towards anyone. Her family moved to a farm in the 1840’s and they fought to end slavery as part of the abolitionist movement. She became a teacher and later was involved with the fight of equal rights for women. In my opinion‚ I would say Susan
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inspiring young women to vote everyday. It is known as a tradition that after a women votes for the first time you take your sticker that you receive after you vote and you go place it on her gravestone which is located in New York where she died. Susan b. Anthony was born on February 15th‚1820 in Massachusetts. She grew up in a Quaker household which means that they are very religious and they believe that everyone is equal and no one should be mistreated. She taught at Canajoharie Academy for 15 years
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Following the election of 1969‚ the incoming Nixon administration inherited many immediate challenges from its predecessor Lyndon B. Johnson. The Vietnam war was entering its fourth year‚ and over 31‚000 American troops had been killed. At that time‚ 540‚000 American soldiers were currently stationed in North Veitnam‚ and no progress had been made at peace negotiations in Paris. The nation would further divide itself following the assassinations of Anti-war activists Martin Luther King and Bobby
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Susan B. Anthony was born on February‚ 15 ‚1820. Susan was raised a quaker family and her father was Daniel Anthony her mother was Lucy Read. susan was the second child Glem anthony was the oldest ‚ the third child was Hannah Anthony Daniel read was the fourth child and they were born in Adams Massachusetts. Susan and her family moved to Battenville‚ New york in 1862 were mary and merritt were born (two youngest children). Susan went to a public school until her teacher refused to teach her long
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Ida B. Wells Anti-Lynching Campaign Ida B. Wells was a well-established journalist who lived during the late 19th century and the early 20th century. She was born in Mississippi in 1862 to James and Elizabeth Wells‚ who were enslaved until the Emancipation Proclamation. When Ida was 16‚ both of her parents and her youngest brother were killed by a yellow fever epidemic. Ida took the responsibility of looking after and providing for her five remaining siblings. Wells moved to Memphis with
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In April of 1996‚ President Gordon B. Hinckley gave a devotional to the youth of the Church entitled‚ “Stand True and Faithful” During this magnificent talk he spoke about the calamities that are pressing and the currents that are pulling. He goes on to talk about life and how we are meant to traverse. In his simple but profound way he coined this phrase‚ one that I might add that has been quoted‚ posted‚ tweeted‚ intsagramed and blogged about since he gave this address. He said with words of soberness
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