Susan B. Anthony
(noun)
An American social reformer and feminist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
Examples of Susan B. Anthony in the following topics:
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The 19th Amendment
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the Movement for Women's Suffrage
- Susan B.
- Later, in May 1869, the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed by Susan B.
- Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
- Susan Brownell Anthony (1820 – 1906) was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States.
- Examine the key achievements of figures of the movement for women's suffrage, especially Susan B.
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Women in the Early Republic
- One young woman from the 1848 convention in Seneca Falls refused to ride in the same carriage as her, saying, "I wouldn't have been seen with her for anything, with those ideas of hers. " In 1851, she met 31-year-old Susan B.
- Anthony emerged as a gifted organizer, and Stanton as a sharp thinker.
- Anthony eventually assumed leadership of the women's rights movement and formed a formidable partnership with Stanton.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B.
- Anthony founded the first national organization for women, the Woman's National Loyal League.
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Women's Activism
- Prominent leaders of the first-wave feminist movement in the United States include Lucretia Coffin Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth, "Mother" Jones, and Susan B.
- Anthony.
- Though she never married, Susan B.
- White, and Susan B.
- Anthony.
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The Women's Suffrage Movement
- Campaigners such as Susan B.
- Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton refused to endorse the amendment, as it did not give women the right to vote.
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The Campaign for Suffrage
- The first national suffrage organizations were established in 1869, after the formation of two competing organizations, one led by Susan B.
- Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the other by Lucy Stone.
- After years of rivalry, the organizations merged in 1890 as the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) with Anthony as its leading force.
- Anthony actually succeeded in voting in 1872 but was arrested for that act and found guilty in a widely publicized trial that gave the movement fresh momentum.
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Women's Rights
- On the closing day, Stone gave a stirring speech to the 1,000-strong audience, which is said to have inspired Susan B.
- Anthony to join the cause.
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The Progressive Era
- Susan B.
- Anthony (February 15, 1820–March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and feminist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement.
- In 1852, they founded the New York Women's State Temperance Society after Anthony was prevented from speaking at a temperance conference because she was a woman.
- In 1878, Anthony and Stanton arranged for Congress to be presented with an amendment giving women the right to vote.
- Popularly known as the "Anthony Amendment" and introduced by Senator Aaron A.
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Conclusion: Trends of the Gilded Age
- With leaders such as Susan B.
- Anthony, the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) was formed in order to secure the right of women to vote.
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Feminist Theory
- Stewart, Elisbabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B.
- Anthony; the first woman pastor of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Jarena Lee; early abolitionist writers and activists like Anna J.
- Cooper, Harriet Tubman, and one of the first African American women to earn a college degree, Mary Church Terrell; early black feminist writers promoting gender and sexual equality like Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Richard Bruce Nugent; early 20th Century writers and activists that sought racial civil rights, women's suffrage, and prison reform like Ida B.