"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less."
Susan B. Anthony was born in Adams, Massachusetts in 1820 to Daniel and Lucy Anthony, Quaker abolitionists. She was homeschooled for the first part of her life but then sent to primary school when her family moved to Battensville, NY. In Quaker society men and women were considered equal and treated as such. In 1848 she became involved in the women's rights movement.
She worked alongside Elizabeth Cady Stanton and many others for women's suffrage. She and Stanton worked to write the Declaration of Sentiments. Women recieved the right to vote in 1920 but Anthony did not live to see it. Without the work of Susan B. Anthony women today would not have the right to vote.
"The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain."
February
15, 1820 |
Susan B. Anthony is born in Adams, MA |
1826 |
The Anthony family moves to Battenville, NY |
1837 |
Anthony is sent to Deborah Moulson's Female Seminary, a Quaker boarding school in Philadelphia |
August
1848 |
Anthony attends the women's rights convention in Rochestor, NY |
1849 |
Anthony becomes actively involved in the Women's Rights Movement |
| March 13, 1906 | Anthony dies in Rochestor, NY |
1920 |
The 19th amendment is added to the Constitution and women are given the right to vote. |
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Page by: Erin Boudreau
February 10, 2008