Susan+B.+Anthony+-+SP09

__Born:__ February 15, 1820 __Died:__ March 13, 1906 Occupation: activist, reformer, teacher, lecturer
 * Susan B. Anthony**

Criticisms of the American society : The majority of the public believed that both the women and the African American population did not deserve the same rights as men. Goals of Susan B. Anthony: She hoped to achieve equality between the society and create equal rights. Her main purpose was to allow women the right to vote in public elections and government issues. Federal government support: The Government/President could have accepted her views and not have had her arrested and fined. In larger terms, they could have included the 19th amendment much earlier to ensure equal rights to vote throughout the whole U.S. population. Biography: Born into a strict Quaker family, Susan B. Anthony had to quickly adapt to the American society and ways of life. Her father believed in raising his eight children through guidance rather than directing them. This theory helped young Anthony grow and express her ideas freely. Her father’s enforcement of self- discipline, principled convictions, and belief in one’s own self worth also assisted her in becoming the well respected adult she later became.

When attending a public school, she asked to be educated in long division. Unfortunately, she was denied due to her sex. Because of this act her father had her and her siblings removed from the public school to become home schooled by Mary Perkins. Mary’s involvement in Susan’s life “offered a new image of womanhood.”

Personal involvement: Susan B. Anthony focused on women’s rights. She completed this through many involvements in both protests and personal movements. At only the age of 29, Anthony’s first protest was her association with the temperance movement, which dealt with “women and children who suffered from alcoholic husbands.” Shortly after in 1849, Anthony gave her first public speech to the daughters of temperance, and then assisted in the finding of the women’s state temperance society of New York. During one of her many speeches Susan became acquainted with Elizabeth cady Stanton and Amelia boomer. These women were also women’s rights reformers that campaigned throughout the region for the rights of the women population. In 1866, Anthony helped establish the American Equal Rights Association. Throughout these many new establishments and protest speeches Susan also published “the revolution” which called for equal pay among the women. (1868) she hoped to create equality between the sexes through this publication. Additional equality was called upon in 1872, when Anthony demanded that our society’s women be given the same political and civil rights as that of a man. This was perhaps her most important movement. To express her sincerity, she led a group of women to the Rochester polls to test if women could vote. Unfortunately, she was arrested for this act. A few years later she attempted to place her vote again. This time she was only fined for the violation of voting laws, but she refused to pay this fine and in turn the fine was excused. Her protests for women’s right to vote were heard all throughout the country. Eventually, black “men” were given the right to vote but this still did not suit Anthony. “She was angry that the fifteenth amendment wrote the word “male” into the constitution for the first time in permitting suffrage for freedmen.” Susan was a part of the anti-slavery movement, and was known as an agent for the American anti-slavery society (1854), but the exclusion of women’s right to vote still angered her. Because of her and many other protests, the 19th amendment: she died before amendment added. During her lifetime this right was never included in the constitution, but not long after her death the 19th amendment was incorporated due to her many protests and hope for the rights of the women. This amendment reads as follows:

“ **//The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.//**
 * //Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”//**