The Women's Rights Movement: Susan B. Anthony

Susan Brownell Anthony was known for being apart of the women's rights movement.
She inspired young women to vote everyday. Even though she is gone she is still 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. She first started to get into women's rights when men at her school wouldn’t let
She started doing petitions around the
United States trying to get the right for women to vote. When the 14th and 15th amendments were passed Susan was excited cause she thought that she had gotten through to the men but no, the
14th and 15th amendments excluded women. Susan was very upset about this so in 1872 Susan went to Rochester, New York and voted on November 1st. 4 days later when the started to count up the votes they saw that a women had voted. Later that day Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting. That’s same day they held a court and told her that all she had to do was pay a fine.
Susan refused to pay the fine cause she thought she did nothing wrong. She told everybody in that court room what she thought and said she would never pay that fine which she didn’t.
Susan was known for a lot of different things because she believed in a lot of different things. Some f the things that she fought for were, women's property rights in New York, abolition for slavery, advocated for women's labor organizations, and women to speech for educational purposes. In 1853 Susan started to campaign for women's property rights in
Then in 1868 she wrote a paper called The Revolution, which was about how women need to be payed the same as men because we are the same just a different gender and that we need 8 hour days like men. She got a lot of support from women who were working for printing and sewing trades. In 1870 Susan formed a association called, Workingwomen's Central
Association and was named president by all the women in the association. This organization helped working women with opportunities to get education. While this was all going on a men printing company was going on strike. Susan tried to encourage them to hire women to show how they could do what men could do and they wanted to get paid the same as men. In 1869 at the National Labor Union Congress meeting, the men from the association Typographical Union accused Susan of running a non-union shop and called her an enemy of labor. This didn’t bother her so she kept encouraging more and more women to try and get man jobs and be different.
Some little facts about Susan that most people don’t know about her are that the 19th amendment was also known as the Susan Brownell Anthony amendment. Some of her most famous quotes are, " I declare to you that women must not depend upon the protection of