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Susan B. Anthony was a women who was fightin for women suffrage. After the Civil War, discouraged that those working for "Negro" suffrage were willing to continue to exclude women from voting rights. So she started to look into women voting more. She helped to found the American Equal Rights Association in 1866, and in 1868 with Stanton as editor, became publisher of Revolution. In 1872, she atempted that the constitution said that women can vote, so Susan B. Anythony voted in Rochester, New York, in the presidential election. She was found gulity of voting so they tried to make her a fine for voting. She refused to pay anything. They made her pay. She also, didn't believe in abortion she thought that the men, laws and double standard lead women into getting an abortion. Susan was mad that the fifteenth amendment pu tthe word "male" into the constitution for the first time in permitting suffrage for freedmen. She also, stated that educated white woman would be better voters than "ignorant" black men or immigrant men. In 1860's she said that the voting for freedom was a danger to the white women, she did not want to black people to be freed.



This article was helpful to my resreach because it said how she was fighting for woman's rights but at the same time, she was very racisit and i didn't know all f this information about her.
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http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blanthony.htm