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Susan Bromwell
Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams,
Massachusetts. Susan's parents supported the women's rights
movement and her father made sure that all of the girls in
the family believed in themselves and could handle all tasks
and problems that came their way.
After finishing her
education in Philadelphia at a Quaker boarding school, Susan
began teaching. She taught in New York and her salary was
one-fifth that of a male teacher. Susan did not think this
was right and protested. She also regularly visited
African-American's in their homes. These two things caused
her to lose her job. Later, she became a principal of the
girls' department of a school in Rochester, New
York.
When Susan B. Anthony attended a meeting of
the Sons of Temperance in 1852 and got up to speak, she was
told that women had been invited to, "listen and learn," not
to speak. This really provoked Susan and she realized that
the temperance movement was not going to get anywhere if
women were not granted the right to vote.
Then the Civil War
broke out and women's rights were forgotten by most people.
Suffragists threw their energies into the movement to free
the slaves. Susan tried to tie the rights of slaves to the
rights of women but no one was interested.
In 1872, Susan took
matters into her own hands. The fourteenth amendment states,
"all
persons born or naturalized in the United States, and
subject to the jurisdiction therof, are citizens of the
United States and of the State wherein they reside. No
State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge
the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United
States, nor shall any State deprive any person of life,
liberty, or property without due process of law, or deny
any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection
of the laws."
Susan B Anthony was arrested for trying to vote. She was fined $100 dollars. This was a step towards women's rights to vote, but it did not happen for a while. Unfortunately, Susan B. Anthony did not live long enough to vote
legally. She died in 1906 and at that time, only four
states-Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho and Utah-had granted women
the right to vote. In 1920, women were given the voting
rights across the nation.
Additional Information about Susan B. Anthony
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