It’s the second week of Women's History Month. And for today’s post I have another “on this day” event. Did you know that on this day is the anniversary of Susan B. Anthony’s death? Susan B. Anthony was a suffragist, abolitionist, author and speaker. She was also the president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
She was born in a Quaker household on February 15 1820 and later became a teacher. In the mid-1840s, her father’s business failed. And she moved back in to help her family to a farm in Rochester, New York. Her family farm later became a base for abolitionist leaders such as Frederick Douglass.
She died on March 13, 1906. Just a year after trying to lobby President Theodore Roosevelt for a women's right to vote amendment. Yet her lifelong dream wasn't realized until 14 years after her death. When the 19 amendment passed in 1920 giving women the right to vote. You can find Susan B. Anthony’s works on Goodreads.
On This Day Bonus:
I like to say Happy Birthday to some amazing women who were born today!
Happy Birthday Janet Flanner!- journalist, wrote a weekly letter for the New Yorker from France under the name “Genet” (Frenchified “Janet”) for 50 years except for the Nazi occupation, was made a knight of the Legion of House (1948).
Happy Birthday La Meri!- one of the world’s greatest ethnological dancers from 1924 to the 1970s, danced with Anna Pavlova, learned native dances all over the world, lectured, wrote, founded the Ethnologic Dance Theater.
Happy Birthday Susan Gerbi!- biochemist, helped devise a method to map the start site of DNA replication, researched the role of hormones in certain cancers.
You can gather more information and resources for Women's History Month from the National Women's History Project: Writing Women Back Into History.
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