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    Susan B. Anthony was a prominent American civil rights leader and women's suffrage activist in the 19th century. She dedicated her life to fighting for women's rights, equality, and suffrage. Some of her major accomplishments included organizing the first women's rights convention in 1848, co-founding the weekly newspaper The Revolution in 1868 which advocated for women's suffrage and rights, and playing a leading role in the women's suffrage movement which helped women gain the right to vote. She never married and spent her entire life advocating for social reform causes and women's equality.

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    Susan B. Anthony was a prominent American civil rights leader and women's suffrage activist in the 19th century. She dedicated her life to fighting for women's rights, equality, and suffrage. Some of her major accomplishments included organizing the first women's rights convention in 1848, co-founding the weekly newspaper The Revolution in 1868 which advocated for women's suffrage and rights, and playing a leading role in the women's suffrage movement which helped women gain the right to vote. She never married and spent her entire life advocating for social reform causes and women's equality.

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    Susan B. Anthony was a prominent American civil rights leader and women's suffrage activist in the 19th century. She dedicated her life to fighting for women's rights, equality, and suffrage. Some of her major accomplishments included organizing the first women's rights convention in 1848, co-founding the weekly newspaper The Revolution in 1868 which advocated for women's suffrage and rights, and playing a leading role in the women's suffrage movement which helped women gain the right to vote. She never married and spent her entire life advocating for social reform causes and women's equality.

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    Susan B.

    Anthony, Women's Rights Activist


    Women have always been considered inferior
    to men because a male-dominated society is
    the harsh reality of our world. However, this
    notion has changed and women are emerging
    from these conventional ideas and helping in
    shaping the present and future of our societies.
    None of this would have been possible if not for
    women like Susan Brownell Anthony; who was
    not only a feminist and civil rights activist, but
    played a prominent role in the womens suffrage
    movement in the United States. This is one of
    the most important movements in the history,
    which helped women gain their right to vote.

    Susan was born to Daniel Anthony and Lucy


    Read on February 15, 1820, in Adams,
    Massachusetts. The urge to serve the society
    and bring about social reform ran in the family
    blood. She was the second eldest child and had
    six siblings. Two of her brothers, Daniel and
    Merritt supported the anti-slavery movement
    and for doing this, they went to Kansas.
    Susans sister, Mary, became a public school
    principal in Rochester and also a womans right
    activist.
    At the age of six, Susans family moved to
    Battenville, New York. Her father managed a
    large cotton mill here. When Susan Anthony
    turned 17, she was sent to the Quaker Boarding
    school where she reluctantly endured the harsh
    atmosphere.
    However, in the panic of 1837, when the
    economy of US faced a jolt, she was forced to
    end her studies after one term. Her family also
    became the victim of the economic depression
    and they had to sell everything. Fortunately, her
    maternal uncle bought most of the belongings
    and rescued them from the tough time. To

    support her father, Anthony started teaching at


    the Quaker Boarding school to ease off her
    fathers debts.
    In the year 1845, her family moved to a farm on
    the outskirts of Rochester, New York that was
    bought partly with her mothers inheritance.
    There, they met other Quaker social reformers
    and together, in 1848, they formed a new
    organization called Congregational friends. This
    soon became a regular Sunday gathering for
    the local activists to discuss important matters.
    Anthony met Frederick Douglass, who was a
    former slave and an abolitionist who later
    became her lifelong friend. Douglass was also a
    part of the Sunday gathering.
    Antonys family started attending the services at
    the First Unitarian Church of Rochester, which
    focused primarily on social reform. Inspired by
    the Seneca Falls convention, another womens
    rights convention was held in the church in
    1848.
    Away from all this, Anthony was living a
    different life at Canajoharie. She had moved
    there to be the headmistress of the womens

    department. She started wearing stylish clothes


    and wanted social reform. She was also upset
    with the fact that men were paid more than
    women for the same type of work. In 1849, the
    academy at which Anthony was teaching was
    shut down and she moved back to her family.
    With the support of her family, she devoted her
    entire life to reform work. It is even said that she
    would spend the rest of her life with the money
    she earned by public speaking.
    With full grit and determination, her lifes most
    important journey had begun. She dedicated
    her time in learning about the reform issues and
    eventually she was drawn to the more radical
    ideas of people like William Lloyd Garrison,
    George Thompson, and Elizabeth Cady
    Stanton. She also started wearing the famous
    Bloomer dress, which were also called the
    reform dress as they gave women more space
    to move and breathe, compared to the tight
    corsets that women were forced to wear.
    Anthony was introduced to Elizabeth Cady
    Stanton, in 1851, who became her closest
    friends and co-worker. Their partnership was

    not only important for them, but also for the


    suffrage movement that would be a prominent
    turning point in the history of the world. Stanton
    was one of the organizers of the Seneca Fall
    convention. Later, she moved to New York City,
    in 1961 along with her family. Anthony and
    Stanton spent most of their time together. Some
    biographers have said that Stanton had spent
    most of her time with Anthony than with any
    other adult including her own husband.
    Temperance was one of the most troublesome
    issues of that age. Due to this, the law gave
    husbands complete control of the family and its
    finances. This often led to the destruction of the
    family as women could do little when their
    husbands were drunkards. In 1853, the World's
    Temperance Convention was held in New York
    City, but to no avail as women were not allowed
    to speak there.
    Attending many womens rights conventions
    from 1848 to 1852, Anthony focused on this
    movement, but Suffrage was yet to become the
    important goal of her life.

    Apart from the womens rights movements,


    Anthony also helped in the anti-slavery
    movement, which was the highlight of her time.
    In 1868, Anthony and Stanton started The
    Revolution which was a weekly newspaper
    focusing primarily on womens rights which
    included the Suffrage movement. Apart from
    this, they wrote on other topics like politics, the
    labor movement, and finance. With the motto of
    Men, their rights and nothing more: women,
    their rights and nothing less, this newspaper
    became a forum for women to discuss their
    opinions on the topic that concerned them. By
    1880, Anthonys efforts had paid off and she
    became a prominent figure in the US.
    The Suffrage movement was one of the
    reasons why women can vote and Anthony and
    Stanton had a huge role to play in this epic
    movement. She never got married her whole
    life.
    After serving the society and living a selfless
    life, Anthony died at the age of 86 in her
    Rochester home. She died of a heart failure
    and pneumonia. She was a leader and feminist

    in her own right who decided to take charge


    and change things that bothered her. She is
    one of the inspirational women that history has
    given us and we have a lot to learn from her.
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