Happy Birthday Susan B. Anthony, the Mother of us all

[niyad]

"Men-their rights and nothing more. Women, their rights and nothing less"

Biography of Susan B. Anthony

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.

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SUFFRAGIST



Susan B. Anthony was convinced by her work for temperance that women needed the vote if they were to influence public affairs. She was introduced by Amelia Bloomer to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, one of the leaders of the women's rights movement, in 1851 and attended her first women's rights convention in Syracuse in 1852.

Anthony and Stanton believed the Republicans would reward women for their work in building support for the Thirteenth Amendment by giving them the vote. They were bitterly disappointed when this did not happen.

In 1866 Anthony and Stanton founded the American Equal Rights Association and in 1868 they started publishing the newspaper The Revolution in Rochester, with the masthead "Men their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less," and the aim of establishing "justice for all."
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.In 1877 she gathered petitions from 26 states with 10,000 signatures, but Congress laughed at them. She appeared before every congress from 1869 to 1906 to ask for passage of a suffrage amendment. Between 1881 and 1885 Anthony, Stanton and Matilda Joslin Gage collaborated on and published the History of Woman Suffrage. The last volume, edited by Anthony and Ida Husted Harper, was published in 1902.

In 1887 the two women's suffrage organizations merged as the National American Woman Suffrage Association with Stanton as president and Anthony as vice-president. Anthony became president in 1892 when Stanton retired. Anthony campaigned in the West in the 1890s to make sure that territories where women had the vote were not blocked from admission to the Union. She attended the International Council of Women at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.
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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.
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http://www.susanbanthonyhouse.org/biography.shtml

[niyad]

1. geez, the un'rec crew got here fast tonight. what, exactly, is your problem with her?

[musette_sf]

8. I think we have visitors from so-called "Feminists For Life"

who are trying to co-opt SBA as a fellow forced birther:
http://feministsforlife.org/news/SBABirthplacePurchased.htm

This same group also conveniently co-opts M Sanger as a fellow forced birther in one article, AND condemns her as a racist fetal murderess in another.

Gee, I wonder if they're tied in any way to those involved in this cynical attempt to cast pro-choicers as racist:
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/02/12/women-color-and-antichoice-focus-eugenics

DUer feminist debbierlus has been attempting to get our attention about these forced-birthers here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=396x1055

A zygote XX does not have equal personhood and rights as the living, breathing woman. No one can call herself a "feminist" and hold such a belief. If a woman loses all autonomy to a cell at the moment of conception, there is no way she can be equal to those who are not subject to losing autonomy to a cell.

[niyad]

9. wish I could rec your post--could you post it separately--it's too important

[PDJane]

2. A hero of mine...........

every time I think of skipping the vote, I think of the long line of women who fought for my right to do so, and get my ass out of the chair and exercise that right.

[niyad]

3. know exactly what you mean. have you seen "iron jawed angels"?

[PDJane]

4. no, I haven't............

I'm not a movie person, frankly..........but it sounds as though I should make an exception.......

[niyad]

6. it was an hbo special several years ago on the suffrage movement,

with an amazing cast, including hillary swank and angelica huston. showed what the women went through to get the vote--including a terrible scene of the forced feeding that so many of them endured in jail.

there was a pbs series called "shoulder to shoulder" eons ago, about the british suffrage movement. also an amazing work.

[pnorman]

7. By all means, VIEW it! You wmn't be disappointed!

There's probably some vestigial "male chauvinism" in my makeup, and I never considered women suffragage as such a burning issue, until I viewed that video about a year ago. Just yesterday, I dug that DVD out and viewed it again. Few movies move me as that one did (even more so, the second time around!). Immediately after, I viewed a few scenes again (the "Hunger Strike"), and finally viewed it once more with the directors narration turned on.

[Captain Hilts]

5. Thanks, Suzie!!!!! nt