Susan B Anthony Women's Suffrage

The struggle for these and other rights would take hundreds of years.
OthOther women of intelligence and prominence continued the fight and although she did not attend the convention at Seneca Falls, Susan B. Anthony is a woman who is strongly associated with the women’s suffrage movement in the nineteenth century. Anthony grew up in a politically active family and they worked in the abolitionist movement as well as the temperance movement in the late 19th century. It was while working on the temperance movement that she became inspired to work for women’s rights. In fact, it was because she was denied a chance to speak at a temperance movement rally, because she was a woman, that made her realize that women deserved rights and to be treated

The newspaper was known for publishing articles arguing for equal rights, suffrage, and equal pay. The newspaper’s moto was, "Men their rights, and nothing more; women their rights, and nothing less," however it did not appear this way until the second edition. The newspaper followed activities of the women’s movement and reported on advancements made by women and any improvements to laws regarding women. The paper advertised speeches, meetings and convention proceedings to move the women’s rights movement forward, especially suffrage. In the first issue of the newspaper is an article titled: The Ballot-Bread, Virtue, Power which says “The Revolution will contain a series of articles, beginning next week, to prove the power of the ballot in elevating the character and condition of woman. We shall show that the ballot will secure for woman equal place and equal wages in the world of work; that it will open to her the schools, colleges, profession and all the opportunities and advantages of life” Media in the form of newspapers and advertisements were a mainstay in reaching women who did not live in an urban setting, thus providing for more women to become informed and involved. While the newspaper was very successful, it fell into debt and Anthony sold the paper in 1870. The focus of the paper changed under the new owner and it ended circulation in

First and foremost, she was an intelligent woman living in a man’s world filled with stereotypes of what a woman should be and do. She went against this and enrolled and was accepted into Oberlin College, a time when women were not permitted formal higher education. She became the first women to graduate from college in Massachusetts, and one of the few women with a degree in the country. Lucy Stone was a fiercely independent woman and thinker and when she was asked to write the commencement speech for her graduating class, however she refused because it was to be read by a man since she as a woman was not allowed to do public speaking. When Stone graduated she was hired by the American Anti-slavery society and it was then she gave her first public speech. Public speaking in turn, became the mainstay of Stone’s career and she earned a good income doing so. Stone traveled throughout the United States from 1850-1855 giving lectures and attending annual women’s rights conventions. Interestingly, Stone had always professed to never marry, knowing that by doing so she would give up even more rights by being married than being a single woman; however in 1855 she married Henry Blackwell. The two omitted from their vows any words that would signify obedience as a wife, also Stone chose to retain her maiden name. She