Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was born in 1820, into a strict Quaker family. As a child she was deprived of many of the joys of childhood and instead was taught self-dicipline and strong belief. From a young age she was exposed to a pro-womanhood views by her teacher Mary Perkins, this early exposure would eventually turn Susan B. Anthony into one of the most famous faces of the Women's Suffrage Movement.
Prior to the successes of Susan B. Anthony and other suffrage leaders, women held a lower place in society than men, but all this began to change in the 19th and 20th century. Susan B. Anthony began to receive recognition after the ratification of the 14th Amendment when she began testing it with the belief that it granted citizenship and the right to vote to all women. Anthony along with other women voted 150 times in ten different states. In 1875, the Supreme Court confirmed that women were citizens but denied them the ability to vote. Susan B. Anthony would also go on to form the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) which later became the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
The work of Susan B. Anthony sparked the suffrage movement and gained wide spread support for it, and in 1910, four years after her death, her life's work was finally fulfilled with the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote.
Prior to the successes of Susan B. Anthony and other suffrage leaders, women held a lower place in society than men, but all this began to change in the 19th and 20th century. Susan B. Anthony began to receive recognition after the ratification of the 14th Amendment when she began testing it with the belief that it granted citizenship and the right to vote to all women. Anthony along with other women voted 150 times in ten different states. In 1875, the Supreme Court confirmed that women were citizens but denied them the ability to vote. Susan B. Anthony would also go on to form the National Women Suffrage Association (NWSA) which later became the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA).
The work of Susan B. Anthony sparked the suffrage movement and gained wide spread support for it, and in 1910, four years after her death, her life's work was finally fulfilled with the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote.