Mar 29, 2012

Susan B Anthony


                                                       Susan B Anthony

         Susan Brownnell Anthony was a woman that made a difference in nineteenth –century. She was born on February, 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. Anthony was a great speaker; she fought for women’s right in 1852. In 1869, she founded the National Woman’s Suffrage Association with her friend Elizabeth Cady Stanton. On November 1872 she was arrested for voting in the president Election, and then the judge pronounced her guilty and given a fine of $100, but she never paid. Her canvassing plan is still used today by grassroots and political organizations. Susan B Anthony died on Match, 13, 1906 in her home in Rochester, New York of pneumonia and hears failure. After she died 14 year later women finally had the right to vote. Her last public words were, “Failure is impossible”. Anthony dedicated her whole life to help American women to have the right to vote.

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