Susan B Anthony

Susan Brownell Anthony is known for her important role in the women’s rights movement in the 19th century and changed the course of the women’s history in the United States. Susan B Anthony was born in 1820 in Adams Massachusetts. She was an American civil rights leader who introduced women’s suffrage into the United States. Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Caddy Stanton paired up to form The Women’s New York State temperance movement in 1852 and Women’s Suffrage Association in 1869 (Freeman, 2002).   Together they campaigned for women’s rights to be recognized and implemented in the American government. The two women traveled all over the US campaigning for women’s rights to own property and to vote.
Their main objective was to get voting rights for women in various states by the amendment of the Constitution. In 1872, Anthony and 14 other women were arrested in Rochester for voting illegally. This brought much publicity and alerted people of the voting injustice. Anthony and Stanton conducted vigorous campaigns to find a way state legislatures could amend their state constitutions as well allowing women to vote in presidential elections and in municipal and local elections. Wyoming was the first state that accorded women the right to vote in 1890. By 1900 women in 34 states had some form of suffrage. Anthony did not live long enough to see her vision for women realized. Just 14 years after Anthony’s death, women in the association finally achieved the passing of the 19th amendment. On August 26, 1920 the 19th amendment, also known as “Susan B Anthony Amendment” was declared part of the Constitution of the United States. Women were finally considered equal to men and were given the right to vote in 1920. Anthony and Stanton’s’ efforts, years of numerous speeches, writing, and hard work, women finally achieved the right to vote. According to Anderson, “Susan B. Anthony’s persistence, passion and unwavering dedication to her beliefs effected a change in American...