The woman I chose to blog about is Susan B. Anthony. She was raised a Quaker and the beliefs of doing well for others. Her parents were Anti-slavery activist and Susan later went on to campaign against slavery and for civil rights. Susan is most well known for her active role in getting the 19th Amendment passed. After the depression she was forced to work as a teacher and noticed that because of her gender she was not paid the same as her male counter-parts. This pushed her to do something about women's suffrage and change the history of the United States. Because of the endless devotion that Susan gave, women were given the right to vote and equal pay. Susan also went on to establish the International Council of Women's Suffrage in 1904. I believe that Susan B. Anthony was an innovative thinker well ahead of her time, she believed in equal rights for all despite gender or race.
http://www.biographyonline.net/women/susan-b-anthony.html
Susan B Anthony was a fantastic women who definitely started a revolution of her time. I'd like to think because of her, women have the right to vote but not only that, we have so much more. While women have a lot further to go, we still have made leaps of progression from her time era and I bet she'd be proud of us!
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