Misa

Susan B. Anthony As a girl I thought every person should have equal rights for everybody. This is my story.

 Born on February 15, 1820 at Adams, Massachusetts,I was the second oldest of the seven children. I attended local school, and one day I asked why my teacher didn't teach girls long division. I didn't like his answer on bit! He said because I was a girl! As I grew up and saw that women couldn’t vote, I knew that that was not right. That was not fair for women. So as an adult for 72 years I struggled to win women’s equal right to vote. I went to Kansas with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone, and there obtained 9,000 votes for women’s suffrage. I made many attempts to unite women so women vote, but only little success. (LIST THEM!!! what were your attempts to get women the right to vote? What did you do? Give examples!) In September 1852 I was invited to speak at the third annual National Women’s Rights Convention held in Syracuse, New York. I gave 75 to 100 speeches every year on women’s rights for 45 years.

Here is one of my speeches that I gave. " Friends and fellow citizens I stand before you tonight under indictment for alleged crime of having voted at the last presidential election, without having a lawful right to vote, I founded the National Women’s Suffrage Association in 1816 with my life-long friend Elizabeth Candy Stanton, the group was for the women to be able to vote and to and for the women to get the same amount of education. I worked for the women’s suffrage program for over 50 years.

On March 13, 1906 I died at age 86, in Rochester, New York. The cause of my death was because of pneumonia. Buried in Mount Hope Cemetery Rochester, New York. I never married, I never had a child but I was proud of what I did. Pneumonia {is a lung infection that can be caused by different types of germs, mostly viruses} suffrage {the right to vote, in political election} Indictment {an act of indicting} indicting {to charge with offense or crime accuse of wrongdoing} alleged {declared or stated to be described}

By: Misa Kawamitsu