SUSAN B. ANTHONY

Beckie VangMs. WilsonEnglish 1 Pre AP-Period 2

Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820.

She is generally recognized as the founder of the women’s rights movement.

Anthony devoted her life to the cause of equal rights and independence for women.

Susan never married.

She taught school for a number of years.

Anthony’s first experience with social activism was in the antislavery and temperance movement.

Her first step toward women’s rights advocacy was to organize the Woman’s New York State Temperance Society.

Women’s suffrage soon became her lifelong goal.

Anthony registered and voted in Rochester. She was arrested, tried and ordered to pay a $100 fine but she refused to pay the fine.

Anthony was charged with “illegal voting.”

She met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who three years earlier had called the first woman’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York.

Anthony and Stanton led The New York-based National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA), which only accepted women and opposed the 15th amendment.

Stanton wrote effective speeches, articles, and letters, while Anthony traveled the country, attended conventions, and delivered Stanton’s speeches in support of the women’s rights.

After the Civil War, Anthony helped form the American Equal Rights Association to press for both woman and black suffrage.

Toward the end of her life, Anthony became president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

In February 1906 Anthony made her last speech at a woman suffrage convention in Baltimore.

She died at the age of 86, on March 13, 1906

In 1920, the goal to which she had dedicated her life was finally accomplished with the passage of the 19th Amendment.

Her work paved the way for the success of the suffrage movement.

Susan B. Anthony ended her life as a respected figure in American life.

Her message for the future: “Failure is impossible.”

Works Cited

http://alpharettaushistory.pbworks.com/FCKeditor/build-fck/editor/f/Susan_B_Anthony_Older_Years.png

http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/Images/Big/WER1374.jpeg http://www.in.gov/judiciary/citc/lessons/susan-b-anthony/sba-

arrested.jpg http://women.tomrue.net/susan_b_anthony_eliz_cady_stanton_1892.jpg http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/womens_vote/

womens_vote_02.jpg http://www.thedctraveler.com/files/2007/11/picketers.jpg http://www.rense.com/general83/img1.jpg http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ohq/106.2/images/

blee_fig06b.jpg http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/images/invinc.gif http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3303/3194272699_78b8c67ec2.jpg http://beastsofephesus.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/susanbanthony.jpg http://z.about.com/d/womenshistory/1/0/J/d/2/

susan_b_anthony_46878.jpg http://washingtonhistoryonline.org/suffrage/images/anthonyPortrait.jpg