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  Susan B. Anthony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Susan was sent to attend a local district school, where a teacher refused to teach her long division due to her gender.
Anthony moved further away from organized religion as she got older, and she would later be chastized by various Christian religious groups for displaying atheistic tendencies.
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 organization.
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 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Susan B. Anthony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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.
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 Susan B. Anthony dollar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Susan B. Anthony dollar is a United States coin minted between 1979 and 1981, and again in 1999.
It was unpopular and was disparagingly referred to as the "Carter quarter" or the "Anthony quarter." Although not used much in circulation, it was accepted by some vending machines, including those of the United States Post Office and mass transit in large cities.
The Anthony dollar is notable for numismatists because (as of 2005) it was the last coin produced for regular issue by the San Francisco Mint.
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 Susan B. Anthony dollar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Susan B. Anthony dollar coin is a coin minted between 1979 and 1981, and again in 1999.
The Anthony dollar is notable by numismatists because (as of 2004) it was the last coin produced for regular issue by the San Francisco Mint.
If the bill passes; Susan B. Anthony dollars will still be legal tender, but will be removed from circulation as they pass in to the Treasury's hands.
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 Kings Park Elementary
Susan was refused the right to testify and the judge ordered the jury to find her guilty.
Susan's lawyer asked for a new trial which was denied and she was sentenced to pay $100, which she never did.
Susan kept active in the women's rights movement for the rest of her life and was credited with many advances.
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 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.
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 sbabiog
Susan Brownell Anthony is best known to the current generation of Americans as the person whose face was depicted on a one-dollar coin that too much resembled a quarter.
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.
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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.
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 Lesson Plan - Susan Brownell Anthony
Susan B. Anthony spent nearly sixty years of her life devoted to the cause of social justice and equality for all.
Susan Brownell Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts.
Susan's first public speech was at the age of 29, given at a temperance meeting.
teacherlink.ed.usu.edu /TLresources/units/Byrnes-famous/anthony1.html   (2499 words)

  
 glbtq >> social sciences >> Anthony, Susan B.
Needing to support herself and help the family, Susan Anthony, whose progressive Quaker father had seen to it that she received a good education, found jobs first as a teacher at a Quaker boarding school in New Rochelle, New York in 1839 and then, beginning in 1846, as headmistress at the Canajoharie Academy.
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.
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 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, 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.
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 "In Search of the Heroes": The Susan B. Anthony Story
Susan Brownell Anthony was an American woman--a reformer, a feminist, a champion.
In 1837, at the age of 17, Susan was sent by her father to "Deborah Moulson's Friends Seminary," a respected private school in Philadelphia.
Anthony appealed to her senator and the men received a pardon from President Grant.
www.graceproducts.com /anthony/life.html   (1860 words)

  
 Susan Anthony
Anthony, Susan Brownell (1820-1906), was a reformer and one of the first leaders of the campaign for women's rights.
Anthony never paid the fine, but no further action was taken against her.
Anthony was the first woman to be pictured on a United States coin in general circulation.
www.puhsd.k12.ca.us /chana/staffpages/eichman/Adult_School/us/spring/civil_rights/3/anthony.htm   (480 words)

  
 Susan B. Anthony
Daniel Anthony, her father, a cotton manufacturer, was a liberal Quaker, who educated his daughters with the idea of self-support, and employed skilful teachers in his own house.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY At the Age of 32, From A Daguerreotype.
Susan B. Anthony was raised in New York as a Quaker.
www.susanbanthony.net   (976 words)

  
 Susan B. Anthony biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Consequently, Susan and her three sisters had the same opportunity for advanced education as her two brothers.
The accomplishments of Susan B. Anthony paved the way for the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 (14 years after her death) which gave women the right to vote.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and History of Women's Suffrage from Susan B. Anthony University Center at the University of Rochester
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 Susan B. Anthony
It is a happy coincidence indeed that the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Susan E. Anthony, one of the greatest of the woman suffrage pioneers, occurs when the woman suffrage amendment to the Constitution is within sight of its triumphant ratification.
In Miss Anthony were combined all the needed attributes of a reformer--great strength of character, a remarkably even disposition, which knew neither jealousy nor any spirit of rivalry save in doing good, and absolute forgetfulness of self in her desire to be of use to others.
Miss Anthony early showed her readiness to endure unpopularity, first in the teaching profession, where she indignantly resented the lack of equal pay for equal work, and then in the temperance movement, for which she made her maiden speech.
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 Susan B. Anthony
Her father, Daniel Anthony, was a stern Quaker abolitionist who imprinted on her a sense of fairness that she would exercise throughout her life.
When she asked to speak at a meeting in Albany, however, Anthony was denied with the remark, "The Sisters were not invited there to speak but to listen and learn." She left and formed the Woman's State Temperance Society of New York, the first of its kind.
Anthony refused to pay it, saying, "May it please your honor, I will never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty." The trial was a national sensation—and the fine remains unpaid.
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 Susan Brownell Anthony
Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820–1906, American reformer and leader of the woman-suffrage movement, b.
IV–VI, 1900–1922; Susan B. Anthony contributed to Vol.
Susan B. Anthony - Susan B. Anthony activist Born: 2/15/1820 Born in Adams, Massachusetts, Susan Anthony was a nearly...
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 Susan B. Anthony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts.
In 1873, Anthony went to trial and was found guilty of the charge of illegal voting.
Susan B. Anthony died of pneumonia in Rochester, New York on March 13, 1906.
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 National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Susan B. Anthony taught school in New Rochelle and Canajoharie, NY, and discovered that male teachers were paid several times her salary.
But when she rose to speak in a temperance convention, she was told, "The sisters were not invited here to speak!" Anthony promptly enlisted in the cause of women's rights.
Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist.
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 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.
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 Susan B. Anthony House -- NRHP Travel Itinerary
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.
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 Susan B. Anthony
Daniel Anthony was born to wealth, influence and the Quaker religion—and in 1826 when that faith broke over liberal versus conservative doctrines (the divinity of Christ) the family followed the liberal camp and became known as Hicksite (after Elias Hicks) Friends.
Susan's first vocation was that of teacher, which she followed from age 17 to age 28.
Susan had to be circumspect in what she said and did so that this avenue would not be closed to her in the fight for women's suffrage.
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 Susan B. Anthony   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Susan B. Anthony said women should be allowed to vote.
Susan B. Anthony was arrested when she tried to vote.
After Susan B. Anthony died, women were given the right to vote.
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 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 1878, Susan convinced Senator Aaron Sargent of California to propose an amendment to the constitution for women's suffrage.
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 Susan B. Anthony - Wikiquote
Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent, independent and well educated American civil rights leader who, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led the effort to secure Women's suffrage in the United States.
Marriage, to women as to men, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
Anthony defense of Stanton at 1896 Convention, HWS, IV (1902), 263
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 Susan B. Anthony - The Invincible!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Underground Railroad, the Civil War, the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, her arrest and trial for voting illegally in Rochester, and countless trips out West are all featured in the 45-minute presentation.
Activist Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) fought for temperance, abolition, and woman suffrage.
Miss Anthony visited so many territories and states in her lifetime that actor/educator Sally Matson is happy to adjust the script to include anecdotes from your state or region.
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SUSAN B. Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) was born in Massachusetts.
She was not satisfied with his answer: "A girl needs to know how to read her Bible and count her egg money, nothing more." She reorganized herself around he schoolteacher and sat behind him in order to learn long division She demonstrated her strength and will even as a young girl.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton became "inseparable colleagues" in the fight for women's emancipation.
www.history.rochester.edu /class/suffrage/Anthony.html   (314 words)

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