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via Tracy Besancon (thanks ~ again) Susan B. Anthony was brought up in a Quaker family with long activist traditions. Early in her life she developed a sense of justice and moral zeal. Imbued with the liberal Quaker idealism of ethical values and social justice, she gravitated toward sympathy with abolitionism and freedom for black Americans. After teaching for fifteen years, she became active in temperance. Because she was a woman, she was not allowed to speak at temperance rallies. This experience, and her acquaintance with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, led her to join the womens rights movement in 1852. From that point on, the two women became premier outspoken champions for the right to vote (for women in America).
Posted on: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 17:54:09 +0000

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