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  Susan B. Anthony Biography
Anthony called for equal educational opportunities for all regardless of race, and for all schools, colleges, and universities to open their doors to women and ex-slaves.
While Anthony was working as head of the girls' department of Canajoharie Academy she joined the Daughters of Temperance, a group of women who drew attention to the effects of drunkenness on families and campaigned for stronger liquor laws.
Anthony refused to pay her streetcar fare to the police station because she was "traveling under protest at the government's expense." She was arraigned with other women and election inspectors in Rochester Common Council chambers.
www.susanbanthonyhouse.org /biography.shtml   (1949 words)

  
  Susan B. Anthony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anthony pushed for Stanton to be voted in as the first NAWSA president, and stood by her as Stanton was belittled by the large conservative factions within the new organisation.
Anthony alienated the labor movement not only because suffrage was seen as a concern for middle-class rather then working women, but because she openly encouraged women to achieve economic independence by entering the printing trades, where male workers were on strike.
Susan B. Anthony was honored as the first real (non-allegorical) woman on circulating U.S. coinage in 1979 with her appearance on the Anthony dollar.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Susan_B._Anthony   (874 words)

  
 Anthony B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Anthony B was born Keith Blair in Clarks Town, Jamaica in the parish of Trelawny (a parish noted for the heroic Afrikan freedom fighters, the Maroons, who defeated the English military).
Anthony B, indeed another Reggae king in full musical swing In 1999, the conscious movement was propelled into high gear once again with the release of yet another masterpiece from the one and only Anthony B. the "Seven Seals" album.
Anthony B has been called everything from preacher to revolutionary, but most importantly for him he is a messenger, one who has delivered some memorable messages through his conscious Reggae music.
www.shashamane.com /artist/anthonyb.htm   (394 words)

  
 Susan B. Anthony
Susan Brownell Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in the small town of Adams, Massachusetts, the second of eight children.
Anthony and Stanton published a newspaper called "The Revolution," sending out the word for women's rights, saying "Men their rights and nothing more, women their rights and nothing less." Also in 1870, she founded and became president of the Workingwomen's Central Association.
Anthony died on March 13, 1906, in her home on Madison Street in Rochester, New York, from pneumonia and heart failure, having led the only non-violent revolution that has occurred in the United States, fighting for women's rights.
www.angelfire.com /anime2/100import/anthony.html   (355 words)

  
 AnthonyB Web Site
In this part of rural Jamaica, Anthony B was immersed in the thunderous chants and rhythms of Revivalism and the Seventh Day Adventist church where he honed his soon-to-be signature vocals.
Anthony B’s lyrical genius and his captivating, energetic performance style have caused him to be heavily requested for performances in the Caribbean, North America, Europe and Africa.
Anthony B’s rich vocals and audacious lyrics carry a depth and substance which is rare in the industry.
www.anthonyb.com   (868 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Susan B. Anthony
Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in the village of Adams, Massachusetts, the second of eight children.
Encouraged by her father, a onetime schoolteacher, Anthony began teaching school when she was 15 years old and continued until the age of 30.
Anthony and Stanton became convinced that women would not gain their rights or be effective in promoting reforms until they had the vote, and nationwide suffrage became their goal after the Civil War.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761553231   (557 words)

  
 Susan Brownell Anthony
Anthony and Stanton were against these amendments because they included the word "male." They believed that with the word "male" written in these amendments, it would be even harder for women to obtain the right to vote for women.
Anthony did not consider this the most pleasant task she ever faced -- she said she would rather make history than write it -- but nevertheless the first three volumes were published by 1886.
Anthony's commitment to women's education was reinforced at the end of the 19th century by her tireless fundraising to secure the funds necessary to allow for the admission of women to the University of Rochester.
winningthevote.org /SBAnthony.html   (1595 words)

  
 Anthony B pleads Not Guilty - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
Anthony B, who is currentluy on tour, could not be reached for comment, but it is understood that he went into the studio to record the number on the day following the trial.
There was celebration outside the court following the acquittal of Anthony B, and the fervour of one woman, a revivalist waving pocomania flags, landed her in jail; she was charged with disorderly conduct and assaulting the police.
Anthony B, who was indicted for suggesting that the prime minister and governor general be damned to fire, was set free on the grounds that his utterrances did not breach legal precepts.
www.jamaicaobserver.com /magazines/throb/html/20010914t140000-0500_14155_obs_anthony_b_pleads_not_guilty.asp   (658 words)

  
 Feminists for Life of America
Anthony praised egalitarian marriages, and described sexuality as "the highest and holiest function of the physical organism." Thus she often decried in plain language the ways in which a male-dominated culture forced women to "sell themselves cheap" in marriage, sex and motherhood.
Anthony once remarked: "Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so that their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them."
Anthony, the paper's proprietor, spurned a lucrative revenue source for most periodicals of the era: ads for patent-medicine abortifacients.
www.feministsforlife.org /history/herstory/sbanthon.htm   (642 words)

  
 MySpace.com - Anthony B - Kingston - Reggae / Roots Music / Ska - www.myspace.com/officialanthonyb
Anthony B (born Keith Blair) is the living personification of Afrikan consciousness in Reggae.
His single "Nah vote again" was a major factor in making the Jamaican elections of Thursday, December 18 1997, the most peaceful one since the insidious cancer of gun violence was introduced in West and Central Kingston, prior to the elections of 1967.
Anthony B tried King Jammys, Black Scorpio and other studio producers after but none saw fit to help plant musical corn of the budding genius.
www.myspace.com /officialanthonyb   (1145 words)

  
 glbtq >> social sciences >> Anthony, Susan B.
Anthony's career as a social reformer began with an 1849 address to the Daughters of Temperance in which she called upon women to take the moral lead and to work for change not just in their own homes but in society at large.
It was the anti-slavery movement that brought Anthony together with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, with whom she would spearhead the crusade for the franchise of women.
Anthony spent considerable time in the Stanton home, collaborating on the work of the movement and also becoming practically a member of the Stanton family.
www.glbtq.com /social-sciences/anthony_sb.html   (810 words)

  
 sbabiog
Anthony hoped to use her case to secure from the Supreme Court a ruling that the recently enacted "citizenship" and "privileges and immunities" provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed to women as citizens the "privilege" of voting.
Anthony's trial experience, and the Supreme Court's narrow interpretation of a Fourteenth Amendment claim in a case brought by a rejected female voter in Minor vs Happersett, convinced her that women would not win the vote through the courts, and that she must turn instead to legislatures or to the people directly.
A friend of Anthony's wrote: "The members of Congress always knew when Miss Anthony had arrived in Washington." In 1878, she succeeded for the first time in getting a proposed constitutional amendment introduced in Congress--the same measure would be introduced in identical form for each of the next 41 years.
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/anthony/sbabiog.html   (1269 words)

  
 E A S Y S T A R * R E C O R D S
Anthony B is considered to be one of reggae's rising young stars by many fans and people in the industry, but I never really thought he was so special.
Indeed, for the hour or so that Anthony B was on stage, the huge crowd was completely mesmerized, and the young dee-jay perfomed with a maturity and professionalism far beyond his years.
Aside from the music, Anthony B captivated the audience with between-the-songs commentary on a variety of subjects ranging from immigration to the Jamaican economy to the state of the dancehall.
www.easystar.com /conrev_anthony.html   (599 words)

  
 braxBIOshort   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
To his list of achievements and awards, Anthony Braxton may now add the 1994 MacArthur Fellowship: the so-called "genius" grant of (in his case) $300,000, awarded to individuals nominated for outstanding and original contributions to their field.
The timing of this crowning achievement couldn't be better for Braxton's most recent professional goals: he is the founding Artistic Director of the newly incorporated Tri-Centric Foundation, Inc., a New York-based not-for-profit corporation including an ensemble of some 38 musicians, four to eight vocalists, and computer-graphic video artists assembled to perform his compositions.
Anthony Braxton is widely and critically acclaimed as a seminal figure in the music of the late 20th century.
www.wesleyan.edu /music/braxton/abbio.html   (567 words)

  
 Lesson Plan - Susan B. Anthony Day
Susan B. Anthony Day, February 15th, is a commemorative day to celebrate the accomplishments of a great leader in the movement for women's right to vote.
Susan B. Anthony died March 13, 1906, at the age of 86, before the amendment was passed giving women the right to vote.
Anthony's birthday, February 15th is now a commemorative day to remember the great leader and work she did for the women's right movement.
teacherlink.ed.usu.edu /tlresources/units/Byrnes-celebrations/SUSANB.HTML   (1414 words)

  
 Anthony, Susan Brownell
By the 1890s Anthony had largely outlived the abuse and sarcasm that had attended her early efforts, and she emerged as a national heroine.
With the issue of a new dollar coin in 1979, she became the first woman to be depicted on United States currency, although the honor was somewhat mitigated by popular rejection of the coin because its size was so similar to that of the 25-cent coin.
Katherine Anthony, Susan B. Anthony: Her Personal History and Her Era (1954, reprinted 1975); Alma Lutz, Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian (1959, reprinted 1975); Kathleen Barry, Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist (1988); Lynn Sherr, Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words (1995).
search.eb.com /women/articles/Anthony_Susan_Brownell.html   (854 words)

  
 Anthony, Susan Brownell. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
From the age of 17, when she was a teacher in rural New York state, she agitated for equal pay for women teachers, for coeducation, and for college training for girls.
At a temperance meeting in 1851 she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and from that time until Stanton’s death in 1902 they were associated as the leaders of the woman’s movement in the United States and were bound by a warm personal friendship.
Susan B. Anthony lectured (1851–60) on women’s rights and on abolition, and, with Stanton, secured the first laws in the New York state legislature guaranteeing to women rights over their children and control of property and wages.
www.bartleby.com /65/an/AnthonyS.html   (478 words)

  
 Gale - Free Resources - Women's History - Rights on Trial - US v Susan B. Anthony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Susan B. Anthony's casting of her ballot almost 50 years prior to the Nineteenth Amendment's national enfranchisement of American women was both an act of political defiance and an attempt to test whether the recently adopted Fourteenth Amendment would be interpreted as expanding or protecting women's rights.
Anthony took the written opinion with her and threatened the registrars with a lawsuit if she were turned away.
Hunt then asked Anthony, "Has the prisoner anything to say why sentence should not be pronounced?" but cut off her responses as "a rehearsal of arguments the prisoner's counsel has already consumed three hours in presenting." He then ordered the convicted Anthony to stand for sentencing.
www.galegroup.com /free_resources/whm/trials/anthony.htm   (1400 words)

  
 Anthony B. "Bucky" Spinelli   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
PLAISTOW, N.H. -- Anthony B. "Bucky" Spinelli, 88, of Plaistow and Port Charlotte, Fla., died Monday at the Fawcet Memorial Hospital in Port Charlotte.
Anthony was a 30-year manufacturing superintendent in the Turbine Division at General Electric Co. of Lynn, Mass., before his retirement.
Anthony was the brother of the late John Spinelli, Patrick Spinelli Christina, Spinelli Louise Spinelli, Frances Spinelli, Frank Aiello, Edward Aiello and Mary Bright.
www.eagletribune.com /news/stories/20050319/FN_005.htm   (192 words)

  
 Failure Magazine-Archives-History-Making Change
The previous effort, the Susan B. Anthony, was such a disaster that the supply from the original print run lasted 20 years.
In Ken Burns' PBS program on Susan B., he talks about why it is that we have this frozen image in the public mind of a very stern S.B.A. He said that they had gone through thousands of photos looking for a more pleasant expression on her face, and they never found one.
Susan B. was committed to being taken seriously and she believed that if she smiled for the camera she couldn't be taken seriously.
www.failuremag.com /arch_history_makingchange.html   (1857 words)

  
 Rootz Media - Artist Network - ANTHONY B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Anthony's current critiques, on his new VP release "That's Life" which are delivered in his powerful trademark sing-jay style (a blend of classic roots singing and modern deejaying) retain the combustibility of "Fire 'Pon Rome" while embracing the struggles waged globally by diverse peoples.
Born Keith Anthony Blair on March 31, 1976 in the rural sugar farming community of Clarkstown located in the northwestern Jamaican parish of Trelawny, Anthony B grew up in a deeply religious family.
Anthony B is often compared to Peter Tosh, perhaps the most militant Reggae artist Jamaica has ever produced.
www.rootzmedia.net /artists/anthonyB/index.asp   (1227 words)

  
 The My Hero Project - Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony fought for women's rights and for the slaves to be free.
Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, near Adams, Massachusetts.
In 1979, more than seventy years after her death, Susan B. Anthony was honored with her picture on the United States one-dollar coin.
myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=susanBAnthony   (1473 words)

  
 Women's History-Susan B. Anthony
The courtroom was packed for the trial of Susan B. Anthony, the foremost leader of the women's rights movement in the United States.
Anthony saw in the amendment a legal case for the right of women to vote.
Anthony first became active in the Daughters of Temperance, an organization that crusaded against the sale and use of liquor.
teacher.scholastic.com /researchtools/articlearchives/womhst/susan.htm   (1355 words)

  
 Interview--Anthony B
Anthony B began recording in 1994, making hits with “Repentance Time,” “One Thing,” “Hurt the Heart,” and “Gwane Chant,” with Sizzla, Derrick Lara, Determine and Louis Culture.
Anthony B: When I came to Star Trail, about ’91 or ’92, there was a 14-parish Sunsplash competition going on in JamaicaÛa DJ from every parish.
Anthony B: We were going through a phase, just opening the eyes and looking at life.
www.jahworks.org /music/interview/anth_b.html   (1031 words)

  
 Anthony, Susan B. --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Anthony, Susan B. pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movement in the United States and president (1892–1900) of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Anthony, Susan B. For more than half a century Susan B. Anthony fought for women's right to vote.
The birthplace of activist Susan B. Anthony, the town of Adams is located in Berkshire County in northwestern Massachusetts.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article?tocId=9272895&query=anthony   (863 words)

  
 Susan B. Anthony House -- NRHP Travel Itinerary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Anthony started her career as an activist in 1849 when she moved to and quickly involved herself in Rochester's active reform movements.
Before and during the Civil War, as Anthony traveled throughout New York organizing abolitionist meetings, she became increasingly aware of society's false ideas regarding the superiority of males and women's inferior role in life.
In 1869, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed a militant wing of the women's rights movement that argued for the full acceptance of the 1848 Declaration of Sentiments.
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/pwwmh/ny6.htm   (383 words)

  
 Anthony B - SOBS 10.03.2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The event was well attended and Anthony B put on a strong and energetic two hour set.
Two short and poignant acts, spoken word artist, Brother Asadefu, and bassist Oshan Dia, alongside the One Drop Crew, opened for Anthony B. Styled in his trademark head wrap, enhanced with a blue rhinestone bandana, Anthony B entered the stage on the rhythm of Marley’s Burnin’ and Lootin’.
With fire blazing -direct lyrics and expert skill, Anthony B threw out classics such as “Water Pump” and “Good Life” – taking us back to where we were before the gruesome events.
www.reggaeweb.com /events/anthonyb/100301/index.htm   (326 words)

  
 Susan Anthony
Anthony also became involved in the campaign for prohibition and was active in the American Anti-Slavery Society and helped escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad.
Anthony was also a historian and with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, she complied and published the four volume,
Miss Anthony said when women called their first convention back in 1848 inviting all those who thought that women ought to have an equal share with men in the government, Frederick Douglass, the ex-slave, was the only man who came to their convention and stood up with them.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAWanthony.htm   (1718 words)

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