She was only three years old when she learned to read and write. The house where she was born is now the home of the Susan B.It was a one dollar coin about the size of a quarter. There was a United States coin minted in her honor called the Susan B.Susan had first introduced this amendment in 1878. It said everyone had the right to vote regardless of gender. On Augthe Nineteenth Amendment was ratified to the Constitution. During this time, Susan made considerable progress, but it would take another 14 years after she died for women to get the right to vote. She devoted the next 37 years of her life to this effort. It was through this organization that Anthony would work to get women the right to vote. Together with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan founded the National Women's Suffrage Association in 1869. Her defiant act of voting turned out to be great way spread the word that women should fight for the right to vote. This was illegal at the time and she was fined $100 for voting. Anthony voted in the November 1872 elections. To continue her fight for women's suffrage, Susan B. Then she helped run a civil rights newspaper, with fellow women's activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, called The Revolution. At first she would speak at conventions and meetings. She became involved in trying to get the government to let women vote and to enact laws that women should have equal rights with men. She saw this in the work place first where she was making about one fourth what a man would make for the same job. Anthony was a very intelligent woman who felt that women should have the same rights as men. In particular they weren't allowed to even vote!
This may seem hard to believe in today's America, but women have not always had equal rights before the law as men. Susan started teaching to make money to help pay off her father's debts. Her dad lost almost everything when the economy collapsed in 1837. Later, life would get difficult for Susan and her family. At the age of 6, her family moved to Battenville, New York where she was homeschooled because her dad didn't think the local schools were good enough. She had 6 brothers and sisters, some who were also very involved in the civil rights movement. She was born on Februin Adams, Massachusetts. She helped lead the way for women's suffrage in the United States, which is the right to vote. Anthony was a women's rights leader in the late 1800's. Best known for: Fighting for women's right to vote.Anthony and her circle of suffragists including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Anna Howard Shaw among others. Although Anthony did not live to see the passage and ratification of the 19th amendment, at the end of her life she said "there have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause-I wish I could name every one-but with such women consecrating their lives, failure is impossible!"Įight collections (one large and seven small) document the life and work of the remarkable Susan B. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored.” The judge directed the jury to deliver a guilty verdict and fined her $100, a sum she refused to pay. you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. Repeatedly ignoring the judge's order to stop talking and sit down, she protested what she called "this high-handed outrage upon my citizen's rights. When Anthony was arrested in 1872 for voting in the presidential election, along with three of her sisters and other women, the case garnered national attention.
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