Susan+Brownell+Anthony

"Men, their rights, and nothing more: Women, their rights, and nothing less" (Discoll). That is what our heroic hero, Susan Anthony, has said when she was giving a speech. Only, a few, people i n the world history can be compare the level of her determination and passion (Anderson). During her life time, Susan was able to created three associations for woman (Murtati), was a president of the American Equal Rights Association and American Anti- Slavery Society of N.Y (Anderson), and a few others. However, throughout her accomplishments, Susan has to go through some of the roughest time because she was a woman. Which is why one of her biggest accomplishment, until this day, was establish, the Women's right to vote, or known as the 19th amendment (Anderson).
 * Introduction**

Susan B Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts on February 15, 1820. Her parents are Daniel Anthony and Lucky Read (Gordon). She wasn't the only child, she was the second out of the eight children (Gordon). When Susan was a little girl she never played with dolls or toys (Anderson). Because of the area her parents decided to move, that was when Susan was six years old and her family decided to move to Battenville, NY (Gordon). This was one of the many reasons why Susan never have many friends. Susan and her sister were a girl, they were being remove from their public school on the first day (Anderson). Her father decided to stay home and taught the girls. Susan was a really smart girl, she was able to finished her school when she was 17 years old (Klein). In 1837, Susan left to boarding school, however little did she knows she was also going to lost her home (Gordon). In 1845, Susan decided to move to near Rochester (Gordon). Because Susan wanted to be like her father, 1846 she became a teacher (Anderson). However this is when Susan notice things were not fair for the woman, her annual salary was $110 while other teachers, males especially, were getting more, even though she was doing the same job as any men in the school (Anderson). Later, she found out it was her gender which cause her annual payment to be this low (Klein). She remember that her father, Daniel Anthony, has taught her that everyone is equal and to never give up (Gordon). With this determination, Susan B Anthony set out to fight for what she believe in (Anderson).
 * Personal Background**

Susan has grow up from a strong and disciplined family (Anderson). Because, Susan was the second of child out of the eights, she was trained to be mature (Mathews). Susan B was known for her determination, leader, and a sympathy for humans (Murtati). Or else, she wouldn't fight for what she believe in. During her fighting for woman, her family doesn't fully supported and her hometown people, but because of her hard- head and hard work had pushed her through (Gordon). She had a passion for fighting for women's right, she would work her way through days and nights (Anderson). Susan may seems like a woman work all day and never have fun, but in reality Susan has a sense of humor (Murtati). That was one of the characteristics that people like about her. She also able to find optimist through her roughest time and a lot of people admire that from her (Anderson). Even though, Susan may seem a bit of intolerant for her age but the sympathy for people will overlap her negativity. Another one of Susan's characteristic was her honest toward life, toward people, toward what she is fighting for (Murtati). At a small age, Susan was also taught how to be equal toward people. It doesn't matter who you are, what age, where you come from, or what gender you are, Susan was taught that everyone deserver to be treated equally. Susan, also, has that mortal judgment that no one could has taken away from her. Because of her determination, she was always a lady that is known for her persistence. It was a positive at some point, but also a negative trait (Anderson).
 * Personality Traits**

Susan wanted the woman to have the right to vote. This started when she was earring four times less than male teachers for the same duties. In 1895, the Sons of Temperance refuse to let her speak (Anderson). Her father heard the news and told her, he doesn't approve about her speaking in public (Mathews). However, as a little rebel that is she is, she decided to move away. She even went a little bit further, and decided to travel from state to state (Murtati). In 1872, Anthony was arrested by the United State but she decided to not pay because it was unfair (Anderson). She got arrested for violating federal law (Gordon). This was unfair because her arrest was not being testify. The reason why her violation wasn't being testify because she was a woman. The fined was $100 but until today she still hasn't pay the fine because she thought that it was unfair (Klein). After this, she spent the next year 1869-1902, going before every congress to get support for the women's suffrage amendments (Anderson). In 1869, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anthony's close friend and fellow suffrage and abolitionist crusader, had a fight (Klein). This cause the conflict between everything they had (Murtati). The reason why they had this fight was because Anthony disagree on Stanton writing for the speech ( June-Friesen ). " [Anthony] supplied the fact and static, I the philosophy and rhetoric, and together, we have made arguments that have stood unshaken through the storms of long years" (Klein).
 * Obstacles**

In 1851, Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was to become her lifelong partner in political organizing, especially for women's rights and woman suffrage. Susan was only 29 years old (Lewis). These two lady had a long lasting friendship, Stanton was known for her brain while Anthony was known for a words (Murtati). Elizabeth Cady Stanton, married and mother to a number of children, served as the writer and idea-person of the two (Lewis).Unlike Stanton Susan B. Anthony, never married, was more often the organizer and the one who traveled, spoke widely, and bore the brunt of antagonistic public opinion (Murtati). After the Civil War, discouraged that those working for "Negro" suffrage were willing to continue to exclude women from voting rights, Susan B. Anthony became more focused on woman suffrage. She helped to found the American Equal Rights Association in 1866. In 1868 with Stanton as editor, became publisher of //Revolution// (Lewis). Stanton and Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), larger than its rival American Woman Suffrage (AWSA), and National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) (Klein). Susan had also worked on //History of Woman Suffrage// along with Stanton and Mathilda Gage (Lewis). In her writings, Susan B. Anthony occasionally mentioned abortion. Susan B. Anthony opposed abortion which at the time was an unsafe medical procedure for women. Which of course, endangering their health and life. She blamed men, laws and the "double standard" for driving women to abortion because they had no other options (Gordon). "When a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is a sign that, by education or circumstances, she has been greatly wronged." (Lewis). She believed, the only way for woman to achieve freedom is through abortion. Some of Susan B. Anthony's writings were also quite racist by today's standards, particularly those from the period when she was angry that the Fifteenth Amendment wrote the word "male" into the constitution for the first time in permitting suffrage for freedmen. She sometimes argued that educated white women would be better voters than "ignorant" black men or immigrant men. In the late 1860s she even portrayed the vote of freedmen as threatening the safety of white women. George Francis Train, whose capital helped launch Anthony and Stanton's//Revolution// newspaper, was a noted racist (Lewis). On August 26, 1920, more than 26 million women had their citizenship affirmed and gained a mechanism to empower themselves, their families, and their communities (Williamson). However, Susan B Anthony wasn't alive until then. She passed away on March 13, 1906 because of stroke (Klein). In 1979, Susan B. Anthony's image was chosen for the new dollar coin, making her the first woman to be depicted on US currency. The size of the dollar was, however, close to that of the quarter, and the Anthony dollar never became very popular. In 1999 the US government announced the replacement of the Susan B. Anthony dollar with one featuring the image of Sacagawea (Lewis).
 * Historical Significance**

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