"Failure is Impossible!"
Susan B. Anthony was an inportant supporter of U.S. Women's rights movements. She was born February 15, 1830. She was the second of Daniel and Lucy Anthony's seven children. Mr. Adams was responsible for making sure all his children got a good education. He was a strong Quaker, liberalist, and abolitionist. Susan later shared these same beliefs.
Education was always an important part of Susan’s life. In her mid-twenties, she began teaching at Canajoharie Academy.
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When she was not teaching, she was involved in the temperance movements. However, after a rally in New York where she was not allowed to speak because she was a woman, she founded the Women’s State Temperance Society of New York to make sure her voice would be heard.
At one of her rallies, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The two women became lifelong friends and a successful team.
During the Civil War, there was less focus on women’s rights and more concentration on abolition. Susan was a strong and active supporter through the entire war.However, her focus changed after the 15th Amendment was passed which gave black men their rights, but did not give women anything! She founded the National Women’s Suffrage Association to work to amend the constitution, again.
Susan had been a strong and active supporter of two important issues, temperance and abolition of slavery. Through her involvement she had seen first hand women’s need to have the right to vote and speak in public.Elizabeth and Susan worked together to reach their goal. In 1863, they wrote the “Appeal to the women of the Republic.”
In 1972, Susan and other women voted in the presidential election. They were all arrested. Susan purposely did not pay her bail so she could go to court and hopefully appeal. However, the jury finned Susan $100 and she refused to pay so she could not appeal the verdict as she had hoped to.
Susan died March 13, 1906. The constitution had not been amended. As hard as she had worked, it just was not enough.Fourteen years after her death, the 19th Amendment was passed giving all U.S. citizens over 21 the right to vote.
Susan had a very tragic life. She worked hard all her life, and never reached her goal. However, she had a great influence on the world while she was alive and she inspired many women across the nation. With her help, women finally triumphed. Her victory came after her death.Susan B Anthony is the First woman to be on a U.S. coin. Like her triumph, her recognition for her life’s work was recognized well after her death.