susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony was born in 1819. As a toddler, Susan’s father taught Susan and her older sister about women’s rights, because that is what he and Susan’s mother believed in (Ronwell, 1). When Susan grew older she started school and learned many things, except long division, which she really wanted to learn. The teacher said that because she was a girl she couldn’t learn it. After that, because of the teacher’s …

…At age 84, Susan was still at it. She’d been working so hard that people called her brave heart. She worked even though the midst of discouragement. Then on March 13, 1906 the sad news struck that Susan had died at around the age of 86.Even after her death the fight for women’s rights continued, and was eventually won in 1919 when the nineteenth amendment was added to the constitution giving women the right to vote(Runkle, 97,103).