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Susan B. Anthony Great American Women - Poster

Susan Brownell Anthony was born in Massachusetts in 1820, and she died in 1906. She believed deeply in the young nation's democratic ideals. But because she was a woman, she was never lallowed to exercise the most basic of all democratic rights – the right to vote. For more than half a century, Susan B. Anthony led the women's suffrage movement in the effort to win that right.

Early in life, she became involved in efforts to abolish slavery and in the temperance crusade – the movement to stop the abuse of alcohol. At one temperance meeting, however, Susan was told that "the Sisters were not invited to speak but to listen and learn". Statements like this convinced her to direct her energies into the fight for women's rights.

In 1866 she helped found the American Equal Rights Association. And in 1869, she helped establish the National Woman Suffrage Association. For the rest of her life, she worked for women's rights through organizations like these. In 1872 she was arrested for trying to vote in Rochester, New York. She told the judge, "I believe this is the first instance in which a woman has been arraigned in a criminal court entirely on account of her sex." In 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was finally ratified. At last it was no longer a "crime" for a woman to vote.

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Susan B. Anthony Pioneer of Women's Rights Poster Series

Susan B. Anthony

“That society is wrong which looks on labor as being any more degrading to women than to men.”

Susan Brownell Anthony was one of the most important organizers of the early women's rights movement. As a young woman in the 1840s, she worked as a teacher. She grew angry when she realized that she was paid less than one-fourth of what her male coworkers were. This anger fueled her interest in women's labor issues. Soon Anthony learned that this was not the only area in which women were treated unfairly. In 1851 she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, another vocal supporter of women's rights. and the two became powerful allies and close friends. The two women often worked together. Their main focus was on the fight for women's suffrage, to women's right to vote. In 1869, they formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. From 1868 to 1870 they published The Revolution, a weekly newspaper that demanded equal rights for women. On November 1, 1872, Anthony led fifteen other women in challenging the law that prevented women from voting. All sixteen women registered, voted, and were arrested. Only Anthony's case went to court. The judge, wo did not let her testify, ordered the jury to find her guilty. She was fined $100, but she refused to pay it. Anthony went before Congress in every session from 1869 to 1906, asking for a constitutional amendment that would give women the right to vote. But it was not until 1920 that the 19th Amendment, which guarantees the vote to women, finally became law. Sadly, Anthony did not live to see it; she died in 1906 at age 86.

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"Men their rights and nothing more; women their rights and nothing less." The motto of Stanton and Anthony's newspaper, The Revolution, 1868.

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Susan B. Anthony, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem and some tv character that I can't remember the name of. Oh, well.

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Civil Rights Leaders - Poster

Cesar Chavez
Thurgood Marshall
Susan B. Anthony
Barbara Jordan
George Mason
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Roger Baldwin
Malcolm X
Thomas Paine
Fannie Lou Hamer
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Frederick Douglass

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