Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Fight for Women's Rights

Without the commitment, hard work and responsibility of Susan Lee Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton,

women

would not have the

rights

they have today. Susan me Anthony was born on February 15 in Adams Massachusetts to Quaker couples, she was the second of six children. open. Her open-minded mother was not originally a Quaker, but after marrying Susan's father, her colorful clothes had to go, but her open religion was not. In her Quaker religion,

women

were allowed to speak at meetings and express their thoughts and opinions. Her father valued education so much that when Susan came home complaining about not being able to learn long division like the boys, he pulled Susan and her sister out of school to teach at home.

Susan never married because she did not want to be under a man, she once said: "I declare that women should not depend on the protection of man but should be taught to protect themselves and there I take my position Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown New York on November 12, 1815 had many sisters and several brothers and her father made no effort to hide his favoritism towards his children, unfortunately and much Debus can of Elizabeth's father, all of the brothers died young when their father was mourning the death of her last brother. Elizabeth climbed onto his lap trying to think of how to comfort him after a few moments she said, "I wish you were a boy from that day on, she did everything she could to fulfill her wish." acting as such, but although she tried to please her father, he always said: I wish you were a boy, this started a spark that eventually became a raging fire in her firm belief in equal

rights

.

In 1840 Elizabeth married a abolitionist named Henry V Stanton, they have seven children, six boys and one girl. Elizabeth was different from many of the suffragettes who had few or no children at the time, the rights of a woman were When a woman married, her name immediately changed to that of her spouse and her property became his. . Some men became drunk regularly and sometimes beat their wives and children, but because women did not have the right to file for divorce they were bound to their husband despite their difficult circumstances in July 1848 in the town of Seneca Falls New York Elizabeth and a few other women organized the first women's rights convention at this meeting Elizabeth Cady Stanton gave her famous speech in which she offered the Declaration of Independence and introduced the demand for the right to vote.

Elizabeth later said that if she had known what an uproar the women's rights convention was, she might not have said what she said. Susan Lee Anthony's parents attended one. They later told about these meetings to her daughter, who in 1851 traveled to Seneca Falls to attend what would be the first of many women's rights meetings. After the meeting, Amelia Bloomer introduced Susan Lee Anthony to Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Later, Elizabeth wrote that she there she was with the good serious face and affable smile of her dressed in a gray Delaine hat and all of the same color enhanced with pale blue ribbons the perfection of neatness and sobriety.

I liked it very much from the beginning. This was the beginning of a friendship that would last more than 50 years. Suzumiya Plinio. Elizabeth Cady Stanton each had different personalities, but her characters combined to create strong leadership. Elizabeth said that although she is slow and analytical in composition, I am Robin and synthetic, I am the best writer, she is the best critic, she provided the facts and statistics, I the philosophy. and rhetoric, and together we have raised arguments that have not been shaken by the storms of 30 long years, arguments that no man has answered. Susan I Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton may have been solid partners but they also had a very strong friendship Elizabeth was never very close To her parents or her family, especially after she married Henry, Susan was like a sister to Elizabeth and her children called her Aunt Susan in 1854.

Anthony was denied permission to speak at the Capitol and the Smithsonian. He then he started campaigning for him throughout the state of New York. York, she chose winter because farmers were home this season. Susan was an incredible speaker and convinced many people to join her because her speaking skills helped her when she had to go to court, she would talk to the townspeople about her. she causes before the trial and like our campaign, many people believed in the movement and would have to postpone the trial to another city. Susan went into town with three of her sisters one morning on voting day and told the men in the office to register her to vote, the men protested, but Susan told him she could sue him if he didn't let her vote, then registered her and she became one of the first women to vote on November 18, 1872.

Susan and Anthony were arrested for voting as an MP. The sheriff arrived at the door of her house and arrested her right in her own house, he told her to surrender, but she demanded that she be arrested properly handcuffed and all the officer took her on the tram and when the man came to collect the ticket of the car, she said I am in his power, he will pay my fare while pointing at the marshal's assistant during his court case. She was tried by Judge Hunt. I was unfairly fined $100 and she said she wouldn't pay a cent.

The judge made the mistake of saying. Do you have anything to add? Yes, your honor sifted, Anthony. I have many things to say. In his guilty verdict ordered, he will trample all the vital principles of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights. ignored brought the fundamental privilege of citizenship and degraded from the status of citizen to that of subject and not only to me individually but to my entire sex our firearms are considered political subjection under the so-called form of government after discussing back and forth the judge had said that the court must insist that the prisoner has been tried according to established forms of law, yes, your honor, but by forms of law all made by men, interpreted by men, administered by men on behalf of the men and against women, and hence their honors, birth of two against an American citizen for the exercise of his right to vote simply because that citizen was a woman and not a man in 1881, after long months of trial, Suzan, I, Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage, a fellow suffragist, published volume 1 of the story. of women's suffrage in later years, the rest of the volumes are written, the purpose of writing these books was to have a history of the women's suffrage movement, after all those who could retell the story worked on many other books, one of them was 80 years old. and more written by Elizabeth Cady Stanton in it says that the happiest people I have ever known have been those who did not worry about their own souls but did everything they could to alleviate the miseries of others, not only wrote books but Susan in 1898 also established a press office at the newspaper to send articles on women's suffrage to the national and local press.

Seven years later, she met with President Theodore Roosevelt in DC and discussed the possibility of introducing a suffrage amendment to Congress, but not until August 18, 1920, 14 years after Susan B. Anthony died the 19th Amendment was passed. issued by Congress provides that 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 the power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation Suzumiya Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton never lived to see the dream they worked so hard for come true, but they understood the importance of paving the way for future women to have the rights they deserve after the 19th amendment was an issue, women had the responsibility to participate. in local and national elections to not neglect their rights and to be moral and honest citizens without Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton women would not have the rights they have today and the United States would not be as successful they were true heroes in American history you