Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17.
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) is known primarily for her leadership in the women's suffrage movement, a cause to which she devoted most of her life. The Nineteenth Amendment, which guarantees the right of women to vote, has been called the Susan B. Anthony Amendment because of her efforts to achieve its passage. [2]
Front page of The Revolution, January 15, 1868. The creators of The Revolution, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, were leading women's rights activists.Stanton was an organizer of the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, the first women's rights convention, and the primary author of its Declaration of Sentiments. [2]
As a trailblazer for women's rights during the 1800's, Susan B. Anthony is credited for fiercely advocating for women's right to vote throughout her 50 years of political ...
Susan B. Anthony’s home in Rochester, N.Y., is now an early voting location, honoring the women's rights activist who played a significant role in progressing the suffrage movement.
Its main leaders were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was created after the women's rights movement split over the proposed Fifteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, which would in effect extend voting rights to black men. One wing of the movement supported the amendment while the other, the wing that formed the NWSA ...
Supporting and celebrating women's rights is a year-round responsibility. But on International Women's Day (IWD), which is on Friday, March 8, 2024, it's even more important to take a stand for ...
History of Woman Suffrage is a book that was produced by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Ida Husted Harper.Published in six volumes from 1881 to 1922, it is a history of the women's suffrage movement, primarily in the United States.