Her father, the owner of a cotton mill, was a "[52], When Stanton introduced a resolution at the National Woman's Rights Convention in 1860 favoring more lenient divorce laws, leading abolitionist Wendell Phillips not only opposed it but attempted to have it removed from the record. At the conclusion of Susan…

[https//www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20439. 6, Stanton's diary, January 9, 1889, quoted in Griffith (1984), p. 195. She demanded they register her. [145] When she was seventeen, Anthony was sent to a Quaker boarding school in Philadelphia, where she unhappily endured its severe atmosphere. [156] As Anthony's fame grew, some politicians (certainly not all of them) were happy to be publicly associated with her. boldness did not bother Anthony. [183] Anthony was listed as a member of First Unitarian in a church history written in 1881. [215][216], The U.S. Post Office issued its first postage stamp honoring Anthony in 1936 on the 16th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which ensured women's right to vote. During the six remaining years of her life, Anthony spoke at six more NAWSA conventions and four congressional hearings, completed the fourth volume of the History of Woman Suffrage, and traveled to eighteen states and to Europe. She was named for her maternal grandmother Susanah, and for her father's sister Susan. Daniel Anthony, her father, a liberal Quaker, was a cotton manufacturer. All rights reserved. Douglass, in turn, was hurt by the insulting arguments of Anthony and Stanton against African Americans. time. This group soon ceased to operate as a religious body, however, and changed its name to the Friends of Human Progress, organizing annual meetings in support of social reform that welcomed everyone, including "Christians, Jews, Mahammedans, and Pagans". Together they met with leaders of European women's movements and began the process of creating an international women's organization. [33] According to Ida Husted Harper, Anthony's authorized biographer, "Miss Anthony came away from the Syracuse convention thoroughly convinced that the right which woman needed above every other, the one indeed which would secure to her all others, was the right of suffrage. In 1876, she moved into the Stanton household in New Jersey along with several trunks and boxes of these materials to begin working with Stanton on the History of Woman Suffrage. worked solely for women's suffrage from this time to the end of [82], The attempted alliance did not last long. Anthony played a prominent role on all four occasions.

Spotting an unoccupied bandstand outside the hall, Anthony mounted it and read the Declaration to a large crowd. In 1890, the National Woman Suffrage Association merged with the American Woman Suffrage Association, which argued for state-by-state enfranchisement of women (among other differences). [16], The two women had complementary skills. She maintained her membership in the local Hicksite body but did not attend its meetings. In November, 1872, though very ill, she left her sickbed and walked with her sisters Susan, Hannah Anthony Mosher, and Mary Anthony to the voter registration site to register to vote. A major hindrance to the women's movement was a lack of money. The Susan B. Anthony Museum and House and the White House did not respond to Newsweek's emailed request for comment in time for publication. During a printers' strike in 1869, Anthony voiced approval of an employer-sponsored training program that would teach women skills that would enable them in effect to replace the strikers.
[114], On the second day of the trial, Hunt asked Anthony if she had anything to say.
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