Susan+B.+Anthony

= = Ayesha Ahmad

Ms. Chase

LNG 322G

13 April 2009

For my literature project, I will be researching Susan B. Anthony. Ms. Anthony was born February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. She was a leader in the women's suffregete movement, as well as an abolitionist. Originally a campaigner against drunkeness and slavery, she soon found that without the right to vote women had little say in the world. Upon the achievemnet of the abolition of slavery, she set her full attemtion on gaining women the right to vote. She ,along with fifteen other women, was arrested for trying to vote in a presidential election. She tried to appeal this to the Supreme Court but lost her case. She worked for women's right up to a month be fore her death at the ripe age of eighty-six.

Anthony, Susan B.. "**Anthony, Susan Brownell (1820-1906)."** __Encyclopedia of World Biography__. Suzanne M. Bourgoin, 2nd ed. Detroit: Gale Research, 1998. __Discovering Collection__. Gale. COLUMBIA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION. 13 Apr. 2009 []. This article discusses Ms. Anothony's life. She not only worked for women's right to vote, but also for the right of slaves. Her first major victory can in the form of the New York State Married Woman's Property and Guardianship Law in 1860. She formed //The Revolution//, a weekly that promoted women's causes.She attempted to vote in the 1872 presidentialrace along with 15 other women. They were all arrested so she took the case to the Supreme Court, unfortunately she lost her case and was not allowed to appeal to the Supreme Court. She continued to fight for women's rights up to a month before her death.

Weisberg, Barbara. __Susan B. Anthony__. New York: Chelsea House, 1988.

This book commends Susan B. ANthony as one of the greatest political figures in the nineteenth century. She grew up in a Quaker community. She originally wanted to speak out against drunkeness and slavery but soon saw that without the right to vote, women would have little chance in changing anything. For the next fifty years she faced many trials and tribulations.