Happy Birthday Susan B. Anthony-mother of us all--"failure is impossible"
Susan Brownell Anthony (1820-1906)
SUSAN B ANTHONY
A champion of temperance, abolition and African American rights, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work, Susan B. Anthony devoted her life to organizing and leading the woman suffrage movement. Born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, Anthony was raised in a Quaker family that encouraged women’s education. From an early age, Anthony made her life's work one of justice and sought to establish equality in the larger world.
At age 26 Anthony began working as a teacher. Over the next 15 years, Anthony would not only teach, but advocate for equal pay between male and female teachers and equal access to education regardless of race or gender. She continued her call for equal pay, and in 1870 Anthony helped form and was elected president of the Workingwomen’s Central Association. This organization evaluated working conditions and created educational opportunities for working women. Anthony was also active in the anti-slavery movement, working as an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society, often making speeches for the cause. Anthony and fellow activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton organized a Women’s National Loyal League in support of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1863.
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A skilled political strategist, Anthony was a leader of the woman suffrage movement and, after meeting Stanton in 1851, their partnership dominated the movement for over 50 years. Anthony was a founding member of the American Equal Rights Association which pushed for a constitutional amendment for suffrage. She and Stanton opposed the 14th and 15th amendments for not enfranchising women. Anthony published The Revolution, a radical paper that often called for equality between men and women. The paper’s masthead was "Men their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.”
When the suffrage movement split in 1869 Anthony helped found the National Woman Suffrage Association, which continued lobbying for a constitutional amendment. During the 1870s Anthony campaigned for suffrage in the western part of the United States. Anthony was then arrested in 1872 for voting, was tried and convicted. She led a woman’s protest at the 1876 Centennial delivering a "Declaration of Rights" written by Stanton and Matilda Gage. Anthony, Stanton, Gage, and Ida Harper also wrote and published the History of Woman Suffrage.In the late 1880s, Anthony laid the groundwork for the unification of the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony then served as the vice president of the unified National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1890 to 1892, and as president from 1892 to 1900.
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Anthony remained active in the woman's movement until her death on March 13, 1906, 14 years before women received the right to vote.
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Susan B. Anthony
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Susan B. Anthony
Portrait of Susan B. Anthony that was used in the History of Woman Suffrage
Born Susan Brownell Anthony
February 15, 1820
Adams, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died March 13, 1906 (aged 86)
Rochester, New York, U.S.
Resting place Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester
Known for
Women's suffrage women's rights abolitionism
Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.
In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and co-worker in social reform activities, primarily in the field of women's rights. In 1852, they founded the New York Women's State Temperance Society after Anthony was prevented from speaking at a temperance conference because she was female. In 1863, they founded the Women's Loyal National League, which conducted the largest petition drive in United States history up to that time, collecting nearly 400,000 signatures in support of the abolition of slavery. In 1866, they initiated the American Equal Rights Association, which campaigned for equal rights for both women and African Americans. In 1868, they began publishing a women's rights newspaper called The Revolution. In 1869, they founded the National Woman Suffrage Association as part of a split in the women's movement. In 1890, the split was formally healed when their organization merged with the rival American Woman Suffrage Association to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association, with Anthony as its key force. In 1876, Anthony and Stanton began working with Matilda Joslyn Gage on what eventually grew into the six-volume History of Woman Suffrage. The interests of Anthony and Stanton diverged somewhat in later years, but the two remained close friends.
In 1872, Anthony was arrested for voting in her hometown of Rochester, New York, and convicted in a widely publicized trial. Although she refused to pay the fine, the authorities declined to take further action. In 1878, Anthony and Stanton arranged for Congress to be presented with an amendment giving women the right to vote. Popularly known as the Anthony Amendment and introduced by Sen. Aaron A. Sargent (R-CA), it became the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.
Anthony traveled extensively in support of women's suffrage, giving as many as 75 to 100 speeches per year and working on many state campaigns. She worked internationally for women's rights, playing a key role in creating the International Council of Women, which is still active. She also helped to bring about the World's Congress of Representative Women at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. When she first began campaigning for women's rights, Anthony was harshly ridiculed and accused of trying to destroy the institution of marriage. Public perception of her changed radically during her lifetime, however. Her 80th birthday was celebrated in the White House at the invitation of President William McKinley. She became the first actual woman to be depicted on U.S. coinage when her portrait appeared on the 1979 dollar coin.
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