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Susan B Anthony The Napoleon of Feminism
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Basic Information Born 1820 Died 1906 An ardent reformer, she worked for temperance, abolition, and women’s rights
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Early Life and Background Susan B Anthony grew up a conservative Quaker. Her father’s example showed her to live her life by principals.
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Beginnings of Political Activity Before her career in political activism, Susan B Anthony was a teacher.
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Abolition Susan B Anthony began as an abolitionist. She worked alongside of prominent abolition leaders such as Fredrick Douglas and William Lloyd Garrison. Her family supported John Brown’s actions.
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Women’s Rights Even as a child, Susan noticed that the laws weren’t fair to women. In 1860, Elizabeth Cady Staton and Susan B Anthony convinced the NY legislature to pass a law protecting the legal rights of women.
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Women’s Rights: The Movements After the civil war, the women’s rights movement split, much like the African American civil rights movement split.
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Contributions to the Cause Among her greatest contributions to any cause she campaigned for was her incredible administrative talent. Susan raised money and support through lecturing.
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Fun Facts Susan did not like Bloomers. A kindly Quaker man asked for her hand in marriage, but he wanted her to stop campaigning, so she turned him down. Susan B Anthony ran a newspaper called The Revolutionary.
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Works Cited http://ncwhs.oah.org/images/YoungSusanB.jpghttp://ncwhs.oah.org/images/YoungSusanB.jpg Jan 14 2009 "Anthony, Susan B. (1820-1906)." DISCovering Biography. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. Student Resource Center - Silver. Gale. Boyertown Area Sr. High School. 15 Jan. 2010 http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&con tentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&pro dId=SRC- 2&docId=EJ2102100056&source=gale&userGro upName=boye83945&version=1.0. http://find.galegroup.com/srcx/infomark.do?&con tentSet=GSRC&type=retrieve&tabID=T001&pro dId=SRC- 2&docId=EJ2102100056&source=gale&userGro upName=boye83945&version=1.0 Nobel, Iris. Susan B Anthony. Jullian Messner: New York. 1975. Print.
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