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Susan Brownell Anthony The Mother of America If the Majority of this nation agrees that George Washington was the founding father of America, then Susan B. Anthony would have to be the founding perplex of America. She was the ultimate leader in the womans suffrage movework forcet. The right to vote movement started around 1840 and in a way, it still continues today. Women have only been voting for 84 days (in America) while men could vote from the start of civilization. In her time, women were not allowed to have anything under their name from the moment they were born. If anything had the potential to be theirs, it would instead legally be their father?s or male guardian?s until she was married. Even then, the object would be given to her husband because women were not considered to be worthy of such(prenominal) things. There was only one college in the whole world that admitted women and women doctors and lawyers were unheard of. Although women are still not treated with complet e equality, the constitution fuly supports their right to stand for themselves. If the 19th amendment was not created in 1920, then it would have taken that much longer for women to gain respect. Susan B. Anthony revolutionized America?s outlook on women of all modify without her, women would not have attained complete enfranchisement in 1920. Susan was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts to Daniel and Lucy Anthony. She could read and write at the age of basketball team and learned arithmetic even though most other girls weren?t allowed to. She continued her education at Miss Deborah Moulson?s Select Seminary for Females and became the assistant whiz of a boarding school in New Rochelle (Untermeyer 61). When she succeeded a man to work as a teacher, after havin... ...or giving them every right that men have been given. There are a few people who still discriminate women, but because women have rights, they are forced to accept the equality of women no matter of t heir opinion. Works Cited Burns, Ken. ?Our Big Time.? American Heritage. Nov 1999 98. Kowalski, Kathiann. ?Cady Stanton and Anthony Friends Fighting for the Cause.? Cobblestone. March 2000 14. Stansell, Christine. ?The Road from Seneca Falls the Feminism of the Mothers, the Feminism of the Daughters, the Feminism of the Girls.? The New Republic. 10 Aug. 1998 26-38. Susan B. Anthony. Thompson Gale. 9 Feb 2004 . ?Susan B. Anthony Women?s Suffrage Movement.? Monkeyshines on America. May 1997 28. Untermeyer, Louis. Makers of the Modern World. New York Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1955.