Susan B. Anthony

Susan Brownell Anthony was an American civil rights leader who played a huge role in the Women's rights movement. Susan Anthony and Elizabeth Stanton founded the National Women's Suffrage Associating, and organizing with the goal of gaining women's equal right.

In Earlier years Susan had tried to unite women in the Labor Movement but she did not have great success. After that Susan Anthony payed no more attention to the Labour movement because suffrage was not seen as a concern for middle-class instead of working class, as well as because she was encouraging women to achieve economic Independence by learning printing trades while the male workers were on strike. Her strategy was to untie all suffrage groups whenever possible to try and concentrate on gaining the vote.

On November 5, 1872 Susan Anthony was arrested for casting a vote in the presidential election. Anthony pleaded not guilty saying that the 14th amendment entitled her to vote because she was a "person" born in the united states and citizens shall not be denied the "privileges" to people born in the United states, which includes voting. Susan was sentenced to pay a $100 fine to which Mrs. Anthony replied "May it please your honor, I will never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty." To this day she never has paid a dollar of that fine and the government never made her.

It is great that Susan Anthony was able to persuade many people to change their minds on women's rights. I think that Susan is a hero in a way for trying to set a good example for fairness of all people.