March is not just for St. Patrick’s Day and March Madness. It also a month dedicated to Women’s History! From past to present, women have been considered the inferior sex and have had to work from the ground up for equal rights.
Susan B. Anthony was a major pioneer in the nineteenth century Civil Rights movement for women’s suffrage. She traveled throughout Europe and the United States, averaging between 75 and 100 speeches a year with the common goals of obtaining the right for women to vote, abolishing slavery, advocating for women’s labor organizations, and gaining the rights for women to own property and retain earnings.
On January 8, 1868, she printed, The Revolution, which was the very first weekly journal for women. The motto of the paper stated Ms. Anthony’s perspective: “The true republic—men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.”
Susan B. Anthony was a true trailblazer in the realm of women’s rights, a cause that still stands today.