Susan B. Anthony

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This paper examines the women's rights movement and focuses on one of the founders, Susan B. Anthony. The paper explains that Anthony was in many ways the mother of the women's rights movement, and though she did not live to see universal suffrage in the United States, her work was crucial to the voice for change, not only in regard to the vote, but also for the view of women in the world.

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"Susan B. Anthony was foundational member of the women's rights movement. Though the vote was the first of almost all essential changes in the way women were viewed socially and legally the vote was only the beginning. Susan B. Anthony possessed a much broader understanding of the needs of women and the changes that must take place for women to succeed in their own right in this new nation. She embodied the challenges faced by single women and also held great personal knowledge of the lives of her married contemporaries, as the sort of "aunt" to all the women of the movement, due to her remarkable openness she was the ear for many grievances against the reality of women's lives in her culture. English common law and the cannon laws of the church subjugated women almost completely to the will of the father, if unmarried and the will of the husband if married."

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