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Day 26 - Susan B. Anthony
Mar. 26th, 2018 09:31 amSusan B. Anthony
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.~
Susan B. Anthony, 1860
There it is, in a nutshell. If you want to change the world, you gotta be all in.
And Susan B. Anthony was that.
She was born into a family of reformers, and she never looked back. Though they were Quakers, her family sometimes disagreed with the strict conservative ways of the Quakers. Her father argued often with the minister and angered fellow parishioners with his modern ideas.
Susan worked for abolition of slavery, temperance and women’s rights, especially women’s suffrage. When her family moved to Rochester, NY, they met other activists and began attending the Unitarian Church. Several suffrage meetings were held there. Susan was headmistress at a school in another town and had moved away. She had begun dressing and speaking in a more modern manner, leaving the Quaker ways behind. She moved back to Rochester when the school closed and took over the farm so her father could pursue activism more.
In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who had spoken at the Seneca Falls Convention for suffrage. The two formed a partnership that lasted many years. Elizabeth wrote the speeches and Susan gave them. This worked well since Elizabeth had seven children to raise. The two spent many years speaking about abolition, voting rights and temperance. Cady even had a room in whatever home she had for Susan and said she actually spent more time with Susan than she did her husband,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Anthony voted in the presidential election of 1872 and was tried for illegally voting. Judge Ward Hunt denied her a jury trial, convicted her but never sentenced her, thus blocking any attempt she might make at taking it to a higher court.
A bill for an amendment was introduced in 1878 to give women the right to vote. It was called the Susan B. Anthony amendment and it finally passed in 1920. Let that sink in… 42 years later!
To my mind, Susan B. Anthony is near the top of the list of American freedom fighters in the company of women like Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman.
If you go to Recommended Books by the Susan B Anthony Museum and House, you will find a list of books about suffrage, Susan B. Anthony and other people who fought for the rights of all Americans to vote.
Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy with despised and persecuted ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences.~
Susan B. Anthony, 1860
There it is, in a nutshell. If you want to change the world, you gotta be all in.
And Susan B. Anthony was that.
She was born into a family of reformers, and she never looked back. Though they were Quakers, her family sometimes disagreed with the strict conservative ways of the Quakers. Her father argued often with the minister and angered fellow parishioners with his modern ideas.
Susan worked for abolition of slavery, temperance and women’s rights, especially women’s suffrage. When her family moved to Rochester, NY, they met other activists and began attending the Unitarian Church. Several suffrage meetings were held there. Susan was headmistress at a school in another town and had moved away. She had begun dressing and speaking in a more modern manner, leaving the Quaker ways behind. She moved back to Rochester when the school closed and took over the farm so her father could pursue activism more.
In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who had spoken at the Seneca Falls Convention for suffrage. The two formed a partnership that lasted many years. Elizabeth wrote the speeches and Susan gave them. This worked well since Elizabeth had seven children to raise. The two spent many years speaking about abolition, voting rights and temperance. Cady even had a room in whatever home she had for Susan and said she actually spent more time with Susan than she did her husband,
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
Anthony voted in the presidential election of 1872 and was tried for illegally voting. Judge Ward Hunt denied her a jury trial, convicted her but never sentenced her, thus blocking any attempt she might make at taking it to a higher court.
A bill for an amendment was introduced in 1878 to give women the right to vote. It was called the Susan B. Anthony amendment and it finally passed in 1920. Let that sink in… 42 years later!
To my mind, Susan B. Anthony is near the top of the list of American freedom fighters in the company of women like Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman.
If you go to Recommended Books by the Susan B Anthony Museum and House, you will find a list of books about suffrage, Susan B. Anthony and other people who fought for the rights of all Americans to vote.
