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The Womens Suffrage Movement began in 1848 with the Seneca Falls convention.
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Susan B. Anthony had always been aware of the injustices of her time, and she had been a participant in the fight against slavery and in 1852 she attended her first women's convention.
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E. Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anothony and Lucy Stone sent a form letter in 1865 to their friends requesting for them to send petitions for Womens Suffrage to their representatives in congress. This request was not taken lightly, and many petitions were sent to various representatives, helping to push the approval of the Susan B. Anthony amendment. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/306686 -
In January of 1869 Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth C. Stanton and others gathered together and held the first Womens Suffrage movement in Washington DC.
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Susan B Anthony along with a few other women voted in the 1872 elections in Rochester NY. A few weeks later Anthony was arrested for voting because she was in violation of the state law that only allowed men to vote at the time. In 1873 she was found guilty by a jury of 12 men and was fined $100. She never paid the fine.
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This artifact is a petition drafted by Susan B. Anthony and E. Cady Stanton in 1874, written to the Senate requesting that they extend the right to vote to women as it's “the same protection that colored men now enjoy.” At this point in time people of color having rights was new and a big deal. https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/anthony-stanton-petition -
Susan B Anthony died of heart failure and pneumonia March 13, 1906; at 86 years old.
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This petition was sent to Congress in April of 1916 by Anne Martin, the president of the Nevada Women’s Civic League on behalf of the league to express their support for the Susan B. Anthony amendment. An amendment that would legalize women’s suffrage across the nation. The petitions letterhead includes a map of the United States showing where in the country suffrage was achieved. https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/petition-nevada-womens-civic-league -
In 1916 the Men’s Equal Suffrage League of Miami signed a resolution in favor of the Susan B. Anthony amendment for women’s suffrage. A resolution is an official way to express consensus about a matter on behalf of a legislative body. A resolution in support of women’s suffrage was a huge step in achieving an amendment that would provide women with the right to vote and protect that right. https://www.docsteach.org/documents/mens-equal-suffrage -
Women nationally gained the right to vote in 1920 after the 19th amendment, also known as the Susan B. Anthony amendment, was officially passes.