Susan B. Anthony

             

               Susan B. Anthony, a woman suffrage movement activist, was a working teacher who decided to take action in equal rights after she discovered that men were earning triple the salary than women. Susan B Anthony not only advocated for equal women rights but for actions that she believed were wrong. She joined the Daughters of Temperance, an organization that focus on the negative effects of alcohol and what how it can destroy homes. What truly motivated her to join the movement was a speech made by Lucy Stone in the 1852 Syracuse Convention. In 1853, she started a campaign in order for women to gain rights to property in New York. In order to make this a reality Ms. Anthony had to speak at meetings, collect signatures for petitions, and trying to convince the state legislature to change their minds. Ms. Anthony even went as far as to voting in the 1872 election and was arrested and put in trial in the Ontario Court House. Susan B. Anthony has made a numerous amount of accomplishments that has influenced society today.
            Fighting to obtain equal rights has made Susan B. Anthony a person worthy to admire because she never gave up on what she believed in. She encourage other women to speak up and not be afraid to be given a right. A remarkable way to reach others was through The Revolution, a newspaper that talked about equality and challenge those who went against the suffrage movement. Even after she was not sentence for “illegal” voting, arguing that her rights as a citizen were being violated, she served as president for the National Women Suffrage Association. With the help of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ms. Anthony founded the National Women Suffrage Association, this association advocated for a constitutional amendment all throughout America. Fourteen years after her death, the Nineteenth amendment was pass, which was also known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. Not only was she named after the amendment but her face has also been displayed in the dollar coin, she was the first female figure to have the honor to be portrayed that way. Susan B. Anthony is someone I admire because she believed that “failure is impossible” and she was able to prove it throughout her lifetime of fighting for equality.
          The right to vote, or the suffrage movement, was given to women after the long fight that not only Susan B. Anthony had started but many other activist. She is a remarkable woman because she never gave up on her believes and what was right and wrong. Until the day she died, Susan B. Anthony kept fighting to see this dream become a reality. At the age of 80 she became president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. As a result, she is a person who encourages me to keep on fighting for what I believe.