Susan Brownell Anthony
Today I learned aboutSusan B. Anthony
American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women ’s rights movement to secure women’s suffrage in the United States.
She was her own individual and she stand or fall by her own individual wisdom and strength.
She was a social reformer and One of the most famous suffragettes, she traveled, lectured and canvassed the nation for the vote for over sixty years while also advocating the abolition of slavery, women’s rights to their own property and earnings, and the right to organize and belong to women’s labor organizations.
On January 1, 1868, Anthony first published a weekly journal entitled The Revolution. Printed in New York City, its motto was: "The true republic — men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less." Anthony worked as the publisher and business manager, while Elizabeth Cady Stanton acted as editor.
In 1869, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Women's Suffrage Association (NWSA), an organization dedicated to gaining women's suffrage. Anthony was vice-president-at-large of the NWSA from the date of its organization until 1892, when she became president.
She was the first person arrested, put on trial and fined for voting on November 5, 1872. Unable to speak in her defense she refuse to pay "a dollar of your unjust penalty."
She had between 70 to 100 speeches every year for 45 years.
She said: “The true woman will not be exponent of another, or allow another to be such for her.She will be her own individual self… Stand or fall by her own individual wisdom and strength… She will proclaim the “glad tidings of good news” to all women, that woman equally with man was made for her own individual happiness, to develop … every talent given to her by God, in the great work of life”.
Finally she said: “Woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself”.
She was born and raised in West Grove, near Massachusetts and died in her home in Rochester, New York.
(February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906)
Susan Anthony neither married nor had children. Susan B. Anthony died 14 years before passage of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote!