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Susan
B. Anthony -
"Champion of Women's Rights"
Beginning in 1848, Susan B. Anthony took part in the woman suffrage movement,
which was the struggle to gain the vote for women. Soon, Anthony wanted
to focus all her attention to the movement and quit teaching, in 1851.
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During this time, she protested the use of liquor and slavery. The same
year Susan traveled to Senaca Falls, New York where she met and became friends
with a fellow reform leader, Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Stanton had organized
the first women's rights convention, in 1848.
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the next fifty years, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony led the
woman suffrage movement. Stanton wrote pamphlets and essays about women's
rights, while Anthony organized women into a strong political movement.
From 1854 to 1860, Susan worked to gain women rights under the law. She
was successful in 1860, when the Married Women's Property Act granted the
women the rights to child custody, wages, and property. However, women still
did not reserve the right to vote. During the American Civil War, the woman
suffrage movement took a back seat. However, in 1863 Anthony founded the
Women's Loyal League. The group fought for the freedom of slaves. |
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