Read Part One HERE
In this post I will focus on a woman named Susan B. Anthony. She lived from 1820 - 1906. Susan was born into a Quaker family committed to social equality. She collected anti-slavery petitions at age 17. In 1856 she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society,
In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and co-worker in social reform activities, primarily in the field of women's rights. Together they founded the New York State Temperance Society in 1852 after Susan was prevented from speaking at a temperance conference because she was female.
They founded the Women's National League in 1863, which conducted the largest petition drive in the United States history up to that time, collecting nearly 400,000 signatures in support of the abolition of slavery. In 1866, they initiated the American Equal Rights Association, which campaigned for equal rights for both women and African Americans. They began publishing a women's right newspaper in 1868 called The Revolution. By 1869, they had founded the National Woman Suffrage Association as part of a split in the women's movement. In 1890 the split was formally healed when their organisation merged with the rival American Woman Suffrage to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association, with Susan as its key force. In 1876, Susan and Elizabeth began working with Matilda Joslyn Gage on what eventually grew into the six-volume History of Woman Suffrage. The interest of Susan and Elizabeth diverged somewhat in later years but the two remained close friends.
P.S. I will continue my story on Susan B. Anthony in the next post.
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