Thursday, March 24, 2011

Struggles of Susan B Anthony

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Susan B Anthony is a distinguished human rights activist of the nineteenth century, and a renowned advocate for women suffrage. Although she passed on unto the next world fourteen years prior to the passing of the law, giving women equal rights to vote as men in the United States, she is still commemorated as the first woman on earth to raise slogans of equality of all men and women in every aspect of life and on every social, political and economic issue. Her work in the field started at the tender age of six year when a local district school teacher, declined to teach her owing to her sex.

This was her first encounter to an injustice that shaped the rest of her life and also the lives of millions of people. She started out her work in the anti slavery movements before the American civil war. To raise her voice and convey her messages, she involved herself in many a great writings the most prominent among them being “History of Woman Suffrage”. She has been a pivotal part of the American Equal Rights Association (AERA), American Antislavery Society, and The Revolution, a journal for women rights. Although she put in a lot of effort for the minorities and their rights whether it be slaves or women, she has been known to give racist remarks. One of the most offensive was what she said about the African American individuals. While working on getting women the right to vote, she said that “Educated white women would be better voters than ignorant black men or immigrant men”. For her philanthropic services in bringing about a revolution in the United States that ensured the prosperity and betterment of women, she has been honored by giving her the status of being the first woman in history whose face has appeared on the US currency.

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