Susan B. Anthony's Role In Civil Disobedience

Susan B. Anthony was a participant in civil disobedience due to the unequal rights or women she states later, “I do not demand equal pay for any women save those who do equal work in value. Scom to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you are in their service as workers, not as women.” (Susan B. Anthony). Susan B. Anthony’s involvement in civil disobedience was due to personal influences, he/she chose to participate in civil disobedience to protest voting laws, ands he did achieve success using this controversial method of standing up for what she strongly believes to be right. Civil disobedience is a form of protesting in a peaceful manner which protesters willingly break the law accepting the consequences of their actions. …show more content…
Anthony’s role in civil disobedience, one must first have knowledge of his her personal life. Susan Browned Anthony was born February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts. Susan was born and raised in a Quaker family, which is a highly strict religion. Anthony was the second oldest of eight including her sibling who had passed early on in life (Susan). Anthony’s father was a owner of a cotton mill, also he was a very devoted religious person, and taught his children good moral values, such as loving and helping others. Later on while Anthony was you she attended a boarding school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1837 After attending boarding school, she began work as a teacher after her family became in debt and we forced to sell their cotton mill business and move to Rochester, New York (Susan …show more content…
Later on Susan B. Anthony showed huge devotion to a group called the woman’s loyal league which was favorable of the 13th amendment ratifying through congress. In 1860 she gained the favor of leaving out the word “male” in the constitutional 14th amendment with petitioning for her cause, as well as working with the women suffrage association to force congress to secure the right of the female sex (Susan B Anthony). Furthermore in 1869, Anthony along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton began the National Woman Suffrage Association. Also, around this time the two women creation a paper called The Revolution which was a paper that was sent weekly and focused on women’s rights, furthermore later they revised a volumes of History of Woman Suffrage (Susan B). As people supported the Equal Right Amendment between 1972 and 1982 the various ways of civil disobedience were shown them lobbying, marching,, picketing, petitioning, and hunger strikes, many of which were not aware that they themselves we adding on to a continuos cycle throughout history for equal rights. However, the first public cry for equal right came in 1848, at the first ever Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York were Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott met working on the abolishment of slavery and were now working on conferencing for two days with over 300 men and women for justice for the women. They wrote a Declaration of Sentiment and

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