SUSAN B ANTHONY

she refused to rest until all women could be heard she fought against slavery she became a prominent crusader for women's suffrage and fought for women's right to vote she is Susan B. Anthony an American woman of achievement every voice and still sings Earth and Sky sound with the date of Mar on Until Victory the constitution of the DAT was November 18, 1872 The Place Rochester New York in the house of the well-known defender of women's rights Susan B. Anthony a knock on the front door expected for 2 weeks this is the room where Susan B. Anthony was arrested for voting in 1872.

She voted for the president of the United States even though it was illegal. She and her three sisters walked up Main Street to the barbershop where the voting center was located. place and voted 13 days later, the US Marshall came to the front door and she ushered him directly into her living room, which was a very formal room. Now he came in, but he was very embarrassed because Susan B

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was a very well-known person and he had to arrest her, very timidly, he said: Well, Miss Anthony, you are under arrest and if it suits you, go downtown.

The arresting officer, EJ Keeny, was not in her element. Thugs and gangsters were his usual targets, but now he was forced to serve. a warrant against a 52 year old woman with a national reputation and what a crime she had committed at a time when women had no vote and few rights Susan b

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forced the issue with her act of civil disobedience Susan banthony didn't want any part of that you can handcuff me and take me downtown right now if you think I'm a common criminal and you should treat me like one and her crime was basically she voted and she was a woman and it was illegal to vote if she was a woman, Susan Banthony had a clear motive for voting illegally and she had hoped to have authorities arrest her so she could present herself to the nation as one of the founders of the movement to guarantee the vote for American women that Anthony had already dedicated.

For more than 20 years on the mission, she was steadfast in demanding equal rights for men and women and if that meant facing a trial and a prison sentence, she would not be deterred, he did not handcuff her, but he took her to the center and they didn't have it. police cars in those days so they took the streetcar and uh when she got on and they asked for her 5 cent fair she said well you can ask this man for my fair, I'm traveling at the expense of the US government and She made sure everyone on the streetcar knew she had been arrested for voting even though she was a United States citizen.

Susan B Anthony fervently believed that the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote and she was willing to go to any lengths to prove it. If the 14th Amendment to the Constitution ratified just 4 years earlier established that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States, the law was intended to give the vote to both black and white men, but Anthony and his followers believed She also opened the door for American women Susan B. Anthony, in fact, as part of this never give up, never despair, um, I think she was inspired by a higher moral law, since she was in favor of abolition, so I was in favor of women's rights, uh, that there was something higher. rule that what society accepted with the government and politicians at that time, it accepted and that this was literally higher than the law, so in 1872 he cast a vote, marched to Rochester, New York, and put his ballot in the polls.

Even though women did not have the right to vote at the time and she was arrested, Susan Banthony was charged for her actions at the PO polls and when asked by the electoral commissioner if she had any doubts about her right to vote, Anthony quickly said that didn't have a single particle. The trial was delayed for six months and she was released on bail. Anthony began a well-attended lecture series to tell the story of her arrest and educate her audience about the 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution, the rights we now have completely owed. For the people who fought for them, things don't happen automatically, they happen because we make them happen, so the idea of ​​women of all races and men of color being counted as citizens and human beings is entirely due to Abolitionist movement against slavery and the suffrage movement for the rights of women of all races, so you should know beforehand that it is very important to remember that it was not that long ago that women of all races and men of color were objects that belonged to them, such as tables and chairs. not people, they were not citizens, they were not voters, it took 150 years of very deep struggle to stop the country and a Civil War and everything else to obtain a legal identity as human beings for women of all races and men of color during Over the course of her life she was involved in the Abolitionist Movement, she is involved in the temperance movement and she is obviously playing a very pioneering role in the women's suffrage movement and the interesting thing about this is what I think Susan Susan B.

Anthony does. . really establishes the distinctive legitimacy of the women's movement, she is clearly one of the heroes who spoke for many women in incredibly compelling ways and spoke for women of all classes, which I think was very, very important in that epoch. The trial of Susan B Anthony for voting in the 1872 election was, according to Anthony and her supporters, a mockery of justice. The judge had strong anti-feminist views and did not even allow the jury to vote on Anthony's guilt or innocence. The judge simply ordered the jury to enter. a guilty verdict when Anthony objected that she found her $100.

Anthony's guilt towards him was: I will never pay a dollar for her unjust punishment. I will continue to persistently urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim that resistance to tyranny is obedience. to God God and religion were important factors in Susan B Anthony's development into one of America's most esteemed women and a leader in the causes of the abolition of slavery, women's suffrage, and the temperance movement Susan B Anthony was born in 1820 in Adams Massachusetts. She was the second oldest of seven children and she was raised as a Quaker. Susan's father, Daniel Anthony, was an ardent defender of liberties.

He encouraged Susan and her siblings to acquire a first-rate education. He made them work in his cotton factories along with other workers and was tolerant of social disobedience. in the cause of human rights and her Quaker religion fostered even greater tolerance towards women in the Quaker household, that is, men and women spoke equally, so Susan Banthony thought that this was the case everywhere, furthermore, women Quaker women could vote on issues related to the Church, so anyone posed to the effect that Faith found it natural for men and women to have views on issues that affected their lives.

Religion was a very important force in early American history, especially in the early 19th century. Women who were born-again Christians who were religiously awakened by the revivals were The religion used was inspired by their religious beliefs. There was a belief that people could change the world and make it perfect, but most women still had almost no say in their own affairs. It was Anthony's religious upbringing that distinguished her from most of the 19th century. women Susan B Anthony uh did not come out of an evangelical Christian tradition in the United States she came out of a Quaker religious tradition that also had the potential to become radicalized uh for women and for others certainly her upbringing was not the cause of her radical views It was at the one-room schoolhouse that Susan Banthony attended in Massachusetts that Susan Banthony first saw the limitations of being a young woman, learned to add and subtract, and approached her teacher, why wouldn't he give her some practice problems? division and she would learn them on her own, well, he refused, Susan said, there is no reason why a woman should ever need to know division.

I won't give you any trouble, but she did Excel and began teaching school herself in surrounding communities in When she was 16, when she was 17, Susan went to Philadelphia to study further at the select Women's Seminary, a strict school. Quaker church where Susan was unhappy, but where she learned more about social injustices when her father's mill failed during a recession. Susan went upstate. She new York and she resumed teaching and farming. Susan B Anthony was able to help her family by teaching in Canada jari and sending money home to help support the family she was in when she first became involved in the First Reform movement. .

And that was Temperance. However, she discovered that by working for this movement she had very little power to effect change without having a political voice. Susan Banthony had started her life as a school teacher because women from farm families and small middle class families. She had to work because these families couldn't support their daughters in uh in Leisure and she had worked as a teacher and she became very concerned about the fact that female teachers earned considerably less than male teachers. Susan B. Anthony took this very hard and in fact, she left the teaching profession because she was enraged by the discrimination against women and returned home, became active in Temperance and discovered again that, as a Temperance Advocate, her rights to defense were being restricted due to their gender.

Daniel Anthony was also morally opposed to the abuse of alcohol by men because he had seen too many women abused by their drunken husbands, he preached abstinence and Susan adopted her views. Susan Banthony converted to temperance beliefs pretty early in her life and I think even you know that pretty early, Susan. Banthony went around speaking in the Temperance movement and urging people to stop drinking strong spirits as they would call it in the 19th century and really developed his speaking skills by going to the Temperance movements and speaking publicly with money still very tight. Daniel Anthony moved with his family to Rochester, New York in 1845 and engaged in farming.

Susan taught for another 3 years at the prestigious Academia Canaria and then returned home. There a new dimension was added to Susan's life: the conversation about slavery and its terrible consequences for African Americans. and for the future of the country, Susan be Anthony learned about the idea of ​​reform thanks to her family; in fact, she went to her farm in Rochester, New York, where every Sunday there were anti-slavery meetings and that's where she met reformers like Frederick Doug the Great. Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison Wendell Phillips Amy post and who was part of the Underground Railroad movement now her parents were very active in the anti-slavery movement and always defended what they believed the Underground Railroad was an informal network of abolitionists who secretly helped . leading fugitive slaves from the South to safety in the North and Canada Susan became enraged by the injustice shown to blacks in the South and began preaching against the abuses of slavery now, at the age of 29 and still unmarried , Susan Banthony was becoming deeply involved in two of the three great issues of her time throughout the 1850s, Susan be Anthony's life revolved around two of the most pressing social issues of the time: the abolition of slavery and abstinence from alcohol during the decade leading up to the Civil War.

American voices became more heated. firm positions and the fabric of the nation was beginning to unravel, the Abolitionist Crusade was really a kind of great reformist Crusade of the early 19th century and especially after the 1830s, when it got this renewed vitality and energy from the black abolitionists and also from white abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison, who brought this kind of evangelical zeal to the movement, and in that sense, the abolition movement really was infused with a lot of religious enthusiasm, a lot of evangelical enthusiasm, and for women, the abolition movement was especially important reform crusade um, not only did it draw them into this kind of public arena and this very political discussion about slavery, but there were also very significant connections being made between the abolitionist concerns of AB and the Abolitionist Movement and the concerns that the women. uh for their own rights and then I think a number of women also began to make a connection between the way that oppression was applied to slaves and the way that women also suffered in 19th century American society.

Ironically, it was Anthony's involvement in temperance. movement that initially opened her eyes to the true powerlessness of women and led her to dedicate most of her energies and her life to the female vote. Susan Banthony wasworking with men and women in New York State for this cause and when she went to the State Convention and was asked to sit in a special place with all the women. Susan B. Anthony sat there, but when she wanted to talk about it she was told that the women, not the sisters, were there to learn and listen, but not to talk.

As Susan B. Anthony stormed off and founded the New York State Women's Temperance Society, this may have been the turning point in her life as she fled male-dominated organizations that restricted her speech. Susan Banthony now discovered that she had a natural talent for public speaking. and political organizing as the Temperance Society grew in prominence, soon after she began meeting other like-minded women, when at home in Rochester she discovered that her parents had attended the first Women's Rights Convention , in 1848, had convened at Senica Falls. which was only an hour from Rochester and the next month they met again in Rochester, their parents and sister Mary attended and they were full of the news of the convention and Elizabeth Katie Stanton and Lucretia Mt and Lucy Stone and all the wonderful women . who were very intelligent and involved with this movement.

Susan B Anthony through her Temperance work met Elizabeth Katie Stanton in 1852. From that moment on she immersed herself in the women's suffrage movement and the early women's rights movements. women and dedicated the rest of his life to them. The Senica Falls convention of 1848 was the true beginning of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, and although Susan Banthony was not among those attending, she quickly became an important figure beginning in 1850. She devoted her energies to the women's movement , which for a long time included criticism of the abolition of slavery and concern for temperance as its core; in those other two movements she never became No matter how visible or outspoken she was, she was kind of a woman in the trenches in these battles, but she never took on the leadership that she took on in the women's movement.

The difference was that in the women's movement she was both one of the executive Leaders in terms of making decisions and calling meetings etc., but she was also one of the main writers. Susan B anony and Elizabeth Katie Staten became one of the most effective teams in the history of American politics. Elizabeth Katy Stanton, who had many children and was married. and so on, and I worked constantly with Susan B Anthony, who never married and had no children, essentially doing the same thing, and certainly Elizabeth Katie Stanton, who rewrote the entire Bible to include women, was a far cry from a nice married lady with children and for the next 50 years Elizabeth Katie Stanton and Susan V Anthony worked together relentlessly to achieve the right for women to vote in the United States.

Stanton and Anthony led the movement and complimented each other on the talents they and Stanton had very often. She wrote because she was limited by the number of children she had. She had seven children. She wrote a lot and was a very good politician. Susan Banthony traveled and talked a lot. She was a very good organizer. a public relations person after a political storm over who would lead the temperance fight Stanton and Anthony resigned from their organization and turned their attention to a purely women's rights issue at which time the law in New York State declared that the possessions and income of married women belong to the husband declaring this as a major injustice Anthony and Stanton set out to change the law, there were many wrongs that Susan B Anthony felt needed to be changed during her lifetime, for example, any woman who was married when Susan Banthony was a child she had very few rights not only did she not have the right to vote, she could not own property if she worked outside the home, her salary was paid directly to her husband, she could not inherit property, own property, sue in court or even have custody of their children.

She lobbied the state legislature and traveled extensively in New York for seven frustrating years, but her determination finally bore fruit. In March 1860, the legislature passed the Married Woman's Property Act which gave women control over their wages and other properties. Susan Banthony had achieved a great victory for equality. Susan Banthony spent the Civil War years pushing for the two priority issues on her agenda: abolition and women's rights, but it was clear that nothing could be determined until the final battle was fought and the future of the Union was determined. sure. Anthony was convinced. that the most equitable future was a country where universal suffrage was the law giving all adults the right to vote regardless of race or sex, so Anthony hit the road again to try to convince state legislators that Women's right to vote was crucial to the success of democracy.

Susan B. Anthony felt that there was no woman in such a big situation that she couldn't do something for the movement and this was part of Anthony's genius: to create a network of women across the country and maintain connection with them and, in In fact, as she traveled around the country and spoke it was in their homes that she stayed Anthony spent time in Kansas Wyoming and other western states getting audiences ranging from a few dozen to thousands and after years of petitions and pleas, her words were beginning to disrupt old habits Susan B Anthony's job is a leader and I really consider her the main leader of the suffrage association and the entire suffrage movement uh it was traveling and speaking traveling the country and speaking so that she could change attitudes and that way laws could be changed she traveled the country at a time when travel was very difficult she was traveling in the Wild West by train when Jesse James was robbing them she traveled in a stagecoach buggy she stopped sometimes and what they called stations but they were like shacks in the In the middle of nowhere in the Midwest in 1868 Anthony and Stanton had control over the influential newspaper The Revolution, which during its two years of life was the most vocal for suffrage.

Posts calling for the 14th and 15th amendments to be re-evaluated because they didn't do it. specifically giving women the vote and calling for equal pay for women in the workforce at the same time she and Elizabeth Katie Staton were forming the National Woman Suffrage Association, made up of women from across the country. Her goal was the approval of a constitutional amendment that would grant women the right to vote. She was politically convinced of the correctness of her cause and she felt that if she did not do this no one would and the cause would die. The 1870s caused a split in the nation's women's groups because a faction led by Lucy Stone, who supported the 15th Amendment, wanted to move slowly toward suffrage, while Anthony and Stanton chose a more radical path, but as they continued internal disputes, the real objective was not lost in the skirmishes when Wyoming became the first territory to grant women the right to vote.

Supporter of the vote celebrated Anthony's victory on her 50th birthday. Susan B. Anthony never left to fight, even after years of losing battle after battle. Women's suffrage had been defeated by Congress, by the Supreme Court, by both major political parties, and by the male electorate, but nothing could defeat Susan Banthony. At that time she realized that only the passage of a constitutional amendment specifically granting women the right to vote would achieve the goals she vowed to fight for after her arrest in Rochester for voting illegally in November 1872. Anthony She remained on the grueling lecture circuit to keep the act in front of the public and began writing with Stanton the first volume of the history of women's suffrage which would be published to great acclaim in 1881.

Susan Banthony appeared in front of every Congress from 1869 to 1906, The year she died, Susan Banthony was considered the leader of the movement, so much so that the amendment giving women the right to vote was named after her in the final years of her life. Susan B Anthy continued with her hectic schedule without doubting her goal. She was now nationally famous and her speeches attracted large crowds. of followers in 1892 she was elected president of the new National American Woman Suffrage Association and held the position until she turned 80 in 1900. Susan Banthony died peacefully at her home in Rochester in 1906 and in 1920 37 states ratified the 19 United States Amendment.

The Constitution finally gave women the right to vote and in November of that year women flocked to the polls exactly 100 years after her birth. Susan Be Aon's dream had come true even though she never lived to see the law passed in 1920, we believe it would have In fact, she had a great celebration in her last public speech in Baltimore, just a month before she died, she urged young suffragettes to continue the fight and inspired them with her last public words. Failure is impossible. Susan Banthony, an American woman of achievement.