Posted on 02/15/2020 6:46:36 AM PST by Borges
On this day 200 years ago, a vital leader in the movement for women’s rights was born.
Susan B. Anthony was born on Feb. 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. She grew up in a Quaker household, where they believed that everyone was equal under God. That belief stuck with her throughout her lifetime.
While traveling around the country delivering speeches in favor of women’s suffrage, Anthony spoke on the topics of labor rights, equal pay and ending slavery.
Anthony worked closely with Elizabeth Cady Stanton. For more than 50 years, they teamed together fighting for women’s rights. Some of their accomplishments include co-founding the American Equal Rights Association, becoming editors of the Association’s newspaper “The Revolution,” and forming the National Woman Suffrage Association.
The two traveled the country together while Anthony gave speeches demanding that women be given the right to vote. There were times that she was at risk of being arrested for sharing her ideas in public.
Then, in 1872, Anthony was arrested for voting. She was tried and fined $100 for her crime.
Even in her later years, Anthony never quit her fight for women’s rights. She led the National American Women’s Suffrage Association until 1900 and traveled the country giving speeches and collecting signatures for petitions.
Anthony would die in 1906, but 14 years later the 19th Amendment was ratified, giving women the right to vote. It is now known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.
That’s a day of mourning
Yep - we have 2 of her failed dollars in a box with other coins...
wow... I'm really excited about that....zzzzzz
I remember those :-)
If it wouldn’t have been her it would have been somebody else.
Susie B. was a tireless fighter for her cause. She was also an avid pro-lifer, who declared abortion to be an abomination of motherhood. Too bad the feminists of today lack the common sense of Susan B. Anthony.
They would sometimes be mistaken for a Kennedy half dollar when clerks were giving change...
While leaving Seattle I needeed change for the railroad to the airport.
I put in a twenty and was rewarded with more Susan B Anthony’s than I could carry. I didn’t know the coins were used anywhere on earth. Some cashiers didn’t believe there was such a thing
I used to bag groceries at our commissary. We worked for tips and I would get four Susan B coins because the officers’ wives thought that they were quarters. Great times back then.
Try explaining the nuances of Susan B. Anthony and the suffrage movement to freeper guys. Ha!
It it happened today, she’s would have been aborted.
Which of the plurality of the female vote accounted for US Presidents anathema to freedom?
Which of the plurality of the female vote accounted for US laws anathema to freedom?
If the votes of American men and women were counted, could American women be counted upon to overturn the 19th amendment today?
IIRC, the movement excluded blacks.
Meant to say...
The only way for the dollar coin to be successful is to eliminate the paper dollar bill, but I don’t see that happening anytime soon.
We confuse her with Sara Lee—a great woman who made cakes! ;-)
"Guilty? Yes no matter what the motive, love of ease, or desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh! Thrice guilty is he who, for selfish gratification, heedless of her prayers, indifferent to her fate, drove her to the desperation which impels her to the crime..."
She’s almost as significant as Chelsea Clinton.
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