Today's stroll is more of a march...as another election year is upon us it's time to reflect and appreciate our right as women to vote, but she didn't just get the vote for women. For our male members, she was so much more...read and learn.
Susan B. Anthony
For some of us when we hear the name we think of that awfully inconvenient coin that came out some years ago that just didn't make it. However many people don't know why she got the coin in the first place or who she was.
Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. She was brought up in a Quaker family with long activist traditions. Early in her life she developed a sense of justice and moral zeal.
After teaching for fifteen years, she became active in temperance. Because she was a woman, she was not allowed to speak at temperance rallies. This experience, and her acquaintance with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led her to join the women's rights movement in 1852. Soon after, she dedicated her life to woman sufferage.
In 1863 Anthony and Stanton organized a Women's National Loyal League to support and petition for the Thirteenth Amendment outlawing slavery. They went on to campaign for full citizenship for women and people of any race, including the right to vote, in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. They were bitterly disappointed and disillusioned when women were excluded. Anthony continued to campaign for equal rights for all American citizens, including people who had been enslaved, in her newspaper The Revolution, which she began publishing in Rochester in 1868. Anthony attacked lynchings and racial prejudice in the Rochester newspapers in the 1890s.
Susan B. Anthony died in 1906 at her home on Madison Street in Rochester. All American adult women finally got the vote with the Nineteenth Amendment, also known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, in 1920.
On the evening of the New York primary.... Rochester’s Mount Hope Cemetery. People took their “I Voted” sticker and pressed it on her tombstone.
To conclude it doesn't matter who you vote for but it does matter that you vote, after all some people went to a lot of trouble for us....
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