Susan B Anthony Research Paper

Although the concept of true equality is unattainable, there are those who devote their entire being to bettering the situation. Susan B. Anthony was one of these people, contributing all her time and efforts to strive towards rights for woman. Growing up in a quaker family that greatly valued humans rights and equality, influenced Anthony to get involved with movements that worked towards equality (“Susan B. Anthony Biography”). Susan led and founded many associations and movements by herself, and with the help of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Ann D. Gordon). The fight for women's rights has come a long way since then, and still has a long way to go, but woman like Anthony helped create a basis for the movement. Susan’s early life, the associations …show more content…
Susan B. Anthony, who grew up in a Quaker family that valued equality and human rights, was an example of this; being heavily influenced by her family members to advocate for human rights. Susan was born in Adams, Massachusetts on February 15, 1820 to parents, Lucy Read and Daniel Anthony. She had two brothers, who went on to be activists for Anti-Slavery movements, and one sister who was a woman’s rights advocate. Anthony, herself, went on to be a suffragist, abolitionist, and women’s rights activist from the time she was 17 to her passing in 1906. While in school, teachers refused to teach long division to Susan because she was a girl; this prompted her father to teach her himself. Although many teachers treated Susan unfairly in terms of academics, some teachers helped Susan build a strong mentality for equal rights. After leaving school, Susan began teaching in schools and private academies, and went on to doing this for ten years. Teaching was where Susan first noticed and experienced the major wage gap in men and women, which drove her to start pushing towards women’s …show more content…
A while after, Anthony and other women acquired 400,000 signatures on a petition that asked for Congress to consider abolishing slavery. This petition marked her debut as a national reformer for equal rights. The 13th amendment, which officially abolished slavery in the US, hyped up Anthony and her followers to continue. Some time after, Susan attended a temperance movement meeting, and was not allowed to speak because she was a woman. This is where she realized women would never be taken seriously if the right to vote was not available to them; and hence began the start of her fighting for Women’s suffrage. The National Woman Suffrage Association was founded on May 15, 1869, and fought for a woman’s right to vote. Susan also founded the New York Temperance Society, which was formed in 1852, which advocated for a woman’s right to divorce alcoholic husbands. Susan believed former slaves and women should be able to attend universities and get whatever education they desire, which prompted her to raise $50,000 in pledges so anybody could attend Rochester University. Susan even contributed the cash value of her life insurance policy, to make sure that she would meet the deadline. Susan’s perseverance is clearly evident in all the work she has completed and everything she hass achieved, and even more so in 1872, when she was arrested for

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