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Susan B. Anthony was born in a straight-laced Quaker family whose father found it important for both his sons and daughters to get an education. Her father believed that childish amusements were “distractions from the inner light” and instead imposed self-discipline along with belief in one’s self-worth. As a young adult, she was independent and educated, holding a position that had traditionally been reserved. After briefly teaching in a female boarding school, she settled in her family home in Rochester, New York. This is when she first dipped her toe in the water of woman’s rights after becoming involved in the temperance movement, dealing with woman and child abuse by an alcoholic husband or father. She was a member of the Daughters of Temperance and helped found the Woman’s State Temperance Society of New York. Anthony helped out in the anti-slavery movement. She was joined in the anti-slavery and the woman’s suffrage with friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was a leader in the movement for woman’s suffrage. She was arrested for voting in an election and ran numerous organizations supporting women obtaining some equal rights.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a longtime colleague of Susan B. Anthony, working with her for many years on numerous issues in American. They first met in Syracuse at an anti-slavery meeting and would continue to be collaborators in the movement towards woman’s suffrage. Together they published the New York liberal weekly, “The Revolution” and the four volume series “The History of Woman Suffrage.”

Amelia Bloomer was also in the campaign for woman’s rights joined by Anthony and Stanton. Anthony supported Bloomer when she published the first edition of her own newspaper devoted to women’s issues, including suffrage and temperance among others. Both Anthony ans Stanton also supported some of her other views, like fashion and the creation of 'bloomers.'

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