Susan B. Anthony A Women

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Susan B. AnthonyA Womens Rights
Leader1820-1906Failure is Impossible

• Presented By Cindy Fricks

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Early Years

• Born in Adams, Massachusetts on February 15, 1820
• Daughter of Daniel and Lucy Anthony
• Taught school
• Believed women deserved equal rights

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Susan B. Anthony Worked For A Better World

• Equal rights for all people
• Womens right to vote
• Equal rights for women
• African American rights
• Better schools
• Safer Workplaces

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Better Schools

• First taught In New Rochelle, New York
• Taught girls and boys equally
• Gave speeches at teacher conventions
• Demanded better pay for women
• Pointed out women were as smart as men

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1849 The First Suffrage Group

• Suffrage means the right to vote
• Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Stanton, and Lucretia
  Mott join forces
• Traveled across the United States
• Talked to men and women
• Spoke out for Woman Suffrage

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Parades and Marches

• Many women shared Susan B. Anthonys views.
• They gathered together to form parades.
• They met in Washington DC to picket and share
  their ideas.

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Opposition to Woman Suffrage

• Susan B. Anthonys views were not supported by
  everyone.
• Some men and women did not agree women should
  vote.
• Anti-Suffrage headquarters worked against Susan
  B. Anthony.

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Publishing a Newspaper

• Published her own newspaper, The Revolution, at
  age forty-eight
• Shared her ideas by writing stories
• Topics for stories included
• Making workdays shorter
• Equal pay for women
• Concerns about children working
• Womens right to vote

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Anthony Votes and Risks Arrest

• In 1872 she voted in New York.
• She was arrested at her home.
• She was charged with voting illegally.
• A judge found her guilty and charged her 100.
• She refused to pay the fine.

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Susan B. Anthony as a Leader

• National Woman Suffrage Association President
  from 1892-1900
• Spoke to Congress each year demanding womens
  right to vote

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Anthonys Later Years

• Worked on other personal rights for women such
  as
• Owning property
• Having money of their own
• Having an equal role in marriage

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Women Vote At Last!

• In 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment was passed.
• This was also known as the Susan B. Anthony
  Amendment.
• This amendment gave women the right to vote.
• This occurred fourteen years after her death.

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Women Vote Legally

• In 1920 women voted legally in the United States.
• 26 million women turned out to vote.

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Suffrage Leaders Remembered

• Monument created to honor these leaders of
  womens rights
• Susan B. Anthony
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Lucretia Mott

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Change in Currency

• Susan B. Anthony Dollar
• Created in 1979
• About the size of a quarter
• First woman image on US money
• Chosen to honor her contributions to womens
  rights

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US Postage Stamps Commemorate the Nineteenth
Amendment
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Susan B. Anthony Remembered

• Many positive changes for women happened after
  she died.
• Women are treated better today because of her
  efforts.
• All US citizens have equal rights.
• Her work continues to help citizens every day.

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Famous Quotes

• Men their rights and nothing more, women their
  rights and nothing less.
• Modern invention has banished the spinning
  wheel, and the same law of progress makes the
  woman of today a different woman from her
  grandmother.
• Susan B. Anthony

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Internet Credits Include

• Adventure of the American Mind
• Other sites include
• teacherweb.com
• coinresources.com
• geocities.com/Wellesley/8984/womstamp-cam.html