She also asked for women to have a voice at the convention and to assume committee positions. 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 people who had been enslaved. She also campaigned for the right of children of people who had been enslaved to be able to attend public schools.
In a last-minute effort to meet the deadline she put up the cash value of her life insurance policy. The University was forced to make good its promise and women were admitted for the first time in Susan B.
It promoted a policy of purchasing American-made goods and encouraging immigration to rebuild the South and settle the entire country. Publishing The Revolution in New York brought her in contact with women in the printing trades. As a delegate to the National Labor Congress in Anthony persuaded the committee on female labor to call for votes for women and equal pay for equal work, although the men at the conference deleted the reference to the vote.
The Association drew up reports on working conditions and provided educational opportunities for working women. Anthony tried to establish trade schools for women printers. When printers in New York went on strike, she urged employers to hire women instead, believing this would show that they could do the job as well as men, and therefore prove that they deserved equal pay. In the s, while president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Anthony emphasized the importance of gaining the support of organized labor.
She encouraged Florence Kelley and Jane Addams in their work in Chicago, and Gail Laughlin in her goal to seek protection for working women through trade unions. Subscribe to the Biography newsletter to receive stories about the people who shaped our world and the stories that shaped their lives. Ida B.
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She fought with the Board of Trustees for years to allow women admittance. This dream was realized two days prior to her stroke Ingalls Anthony passed away in She did not live to see her big dream of suffrage. In , fourteen years after her death, the Nineteenth Amendment was passed by one vote and Anthony's dream was finally completed Miller Congress finally honored Anthony in by placing her portrait on the one-dollar coin Who2 Anthony had many ties to the philanthropic sector.
First was her involvement in many organizations such as Daughters of Temperance, the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and her work with abolition, temperance, and other political issues. She was very active in raising money to support these causes and also made generous donations to the University of Rochester and other institutions.
Today, the Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Leadership provides scholarships and educational opportunities for women. From an early age Susan B. Anthony was taught that everyone should be treated equally. Her family stressed the importance of education for all and activism. Her parents role modeled these ideas by educating Susan when public education was unavailable to her because of her gender.
These roots were influential as she lived her life fighting for the fair treatment of all citizens, particularly African Americans as an abolitionist and women as a suffragist.
Her example and influence on social movements continued well into the twentieth century as women sought equal pay and equal educational opportunities, as well as in the Civil Rights movement.
There are many inconsistencies in equality for which citizens continue Anthony's efforts. See key terms: abolition , equal rights , Suffrage movement , Temperance movement, voting rights , and women's rights. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was Anthony's close friend and fellow suffrage and abolitionist crusader.
Stanton stated, "[Anthony] supplied the facts and statistics, I the philosophy and rhetoric, and, together, we have made arguments that have stood unshaken through the storms of long years" Kowalski American Civil Liberties Union. She even took matters into her own hands in when she voted in the presidential election illegally. Anthony was arrested and tried unsuccessfully to fight the charges.
In recognition of her dedication and hard work, the U. Anthony: Biography. Anthony Dollar. Anthony Supports Women's Suffrage Amendment. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
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