How Did Susan B Anthony Contribute To The Women's Rights Movement

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Susan B. Anthony Kha Hoang Su17 HIST 02W Hist of US 1812 To 1914 August 5, 2017 Section I: Background Susan B. Anthony is arguably considered to be one of America’s most significant women’s rights activist, as well as a social reformer. This is because she is most notable for her contributions to the women's suffrage movement. Along with suffrage, Anthony fought for a number of women's rights as well, including women's property rights, the natural rights of mothers, and women's right to an education at colleges and universities. Not everyone can understand the hardships she endured in order to guarantee the equality for women in terms of both civil and political rights, but her efforts were indeed rewarded with many triumph in achieving equal …show more content…

Along with this, he believed in the fair education for women and also thought that they should have their own economic independence this all contributed to sculpting Anthony into the women’s right activist she is best remembered as. Although Anthony was born in Massachusetts, she lived in New York until she was six years old. She had a great love for the state, even to the extent of associating herself with whatever interests the state had. Despite the great love she held for her state, she was never allowed to participate in its government. Later in her life, Anthony became a school teacher, a career she was quite successful in, until she was reached the age of thirty. In the summer of 1849, she decided to leave her job as a teacher and return home in hopes of pursuing a better career. This would have been nearly impossible for the majority of women because there were not any job opportunities for an educated woman other than being a teacher. Even though the chances of achieving a different career were slim, Anthony was persistent in what she believed in, because, growing up, she was taught that a woman’s right to speech was worth no less than what a man had to …show more content…

In addition to this, the association also aided the states in numerous other reform movements through the provision of workers, money, and other key factors that contributed to the success of these movements. Susan Anthony dedicated her life to this association, being with it every step of the way. She observed it become a superpower that she hoped for it to be and celebrated its successes. All of this would eventually lead to the equal rights that women now share with men today, because her efforts contributed a lot to the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote in the 1920s. This would eventually lead to women being able to obtain political positions today, such as Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and former senator Carol Moseley Braun. In addition to being a women’s right activist, Susan Anthony was also an abolitionist. Not only did she believe in equality for women, she believed in equality for all, not just those of fairer skin. Anthony made many efforts towards the abolishment of slavery as a legal, accepted

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