Born on February 15, 1820, in Adams, Massachusetts, Anthony was raised in a family that encouraged women’s education. From an early age, Anthony made her life's work one of justice. Susan B. Anthony devoted her life to fighting for the expansion of civil rights, championing temperance, abolition and African American rights, the rights of labor, and equal pay for women and men. Susan B. Anthony spent part of her career as a teacher, and the rest of her career fighting for the civil rights of women. Anthony was a leader of the women's suffrage movement and a founding member of the American Equal Rights Association. Anthony published The Revolution, a radical paper that often called for equality between men and women. The paper’s byline was "Men their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.”




Should the 14th and 15th amendments have been interpreted as granting American women the right to vote? Why or why not? Cite text Evidence