Women's History
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
SECTION 6
THE TRAILER
Susan B- Anthony .movINFORMATION
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Full name:
Susan B. Anthony
Birth & Death:
February 15, 1820 - March 13, 1906
Titles:
Writer, Human Rights, Civil Rights, and Women's Rights activist, Quaker boarding school teacher
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Childhood:
-Lived as a Quaker
-Financially ruined by the Panic of 1837
-Initiated the Congregational Friends
-Became the headmistress of the Canajoharie Academy in 1848
Education:
-Quaker boarding school in Philadelphia, (1837-1838)
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Achievements:
-Became president for (NAWSA)
-Helped pass the 19th Amendment
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Later Years:
-Lived in hotels before settling in with her sister Mary in 1891
-In 1893, Anthony initiated the Rochester branch of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union
-Celebrated her 80th birthday in the White house invited by President William McKinley
-Died at 86 of heart failure and pneumonia in New York
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THE BIO-POEM
SUSAN
An independent, determined, decisive, and supportive individual
The daughter of Daniel Read Anthony
Who was committed to women's equality, labor rights, and temperance
A person who opposed racism, and abortion and loved helping others
A person who feared that women would adopt the values of a man-made society too quickly, that they would be silenced, and that slavery would continue
A NAWSA president who helped women vote
Dedicated to the fight for equal pay and the elimination of all forms of discrimination
Born in Adams, Massachusetts, and lived in Rochester, New York
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