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Susan B. Anthony
Origin: Atlanta, Georgia
(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)
Heroic Values: Achievement, Caring, Courage, Integrity, Perseverance, Tolerance, Vision
Background
Susan
B. Anthony was born in Massachusetts in 1820. She learned how to read
and write by age three. Her father was a cotton manufacturer,
abolitionist, and a devout Quaker. When the Quaker religion split into
liberal and conservative sides, Anthony’s family followed the liberals.
Later in her life, she ended up straying away from the religion.
Susan
was a firm activist. At first, she tried to unify African-American and
Women's rights. After the Civil War she was worried that the people who
were concerned for African-American suffrage would still deny women
their right to vote. She helped to found the American Equal Rights
Association which aimed to give equal rights to African-Americans and
women. She played the pivotal role in granting women’s suffrage, or
their right to vote. She eventually was arrested for illegally voting
for which she never paid the fine.
Even though she died a little
less than 14 ½ years before the 19th Amendment was passed, her legacy
and service towards women’s rights will never be forgotten. People have
done special things in her honor; an opera was written about her by
Virgil Thompson and Gertrude Stein called The Mother of Us All and she
was commemorated in a sculpture at the US Capitol. Also, she was chosen
as the face of the dollar coin in 1999, and although the coin never
gained any popularity, she was the first woman to be depicted on US
currency.
Sources
Wikipedia
The online encyclopedia
Spartacus
Articles on Anthony
University of Rochester
A set of links on Anthony