How Did Susan Brownwell Anthony Fight For Women's Suffrage

Susan Brownwell Anthony led the fight for women’s suffrage for more than 50 years, bringing so much improvement and impact, although she was just an ordinary human. She was born on February 15th ,1820 in Adams, Massachusetts and she moved to Battenville, New York when she was young. She became a teacher and the head of the female department of an academy in 1846 after she was done her education. Susan had always been interested in woman's suffrage and therefore went out of her comfort zone and joined movements, meeting many other suffragists including Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She became committed to the women’s rights cause and she campaigned through speeches, newspapers, conventions, associations, voting in the 1872 election, a series

She developed a newspaper called The Revolution that discussed women’s right to vote, a six-volume series called History of Women’s Suffrage and the National Women Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other women. In that association she became part of the executive committee and then the vice-president. She was part of state campaigns in California, Michigan, and South Dakota, along with giving speeches all over. Next Susan voted in the 1872 election without getting arrested or paying a fine that resulted in making the first proposal of woman suffrage in Congress that would be passed 40 years later. Also she helped unite dueling woman suffrage groups (American Woman Suffrage Association and the National Woman Suffrage Association) to fight for a common goal together; she then became vice-president then president in that association. Next Susan helped open the University of Rochester to women, created the International Women Suffrage Association and became president of that, and collected 400,000 signatures supporting woman suffrage making it part of Theodore Roosevelt’s campaign. Through this she became a living symbol of the woman’s rights movement and influenced other activists to step up and finish the job, once she had died. This resulted in the 19th Amendment! She still reminds us of the fight for all Americans to be able to vote, and in that honor is being included in a montage on the back of the 10$ bill in