Susan Brownell Anthony
American Civil Rights Leader
19th Century Women's Rights Movement Leader
Introduced Women's Suffrage Into the United States
19th Century Women's Rights Movement Leader
Introduced Women's Suffrage Into the United States
Biography
Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States. She was co-founder of the first Women's Temperance Movement with Elizabeth Cady Stanton as President. She also co-founded the women's rights journal, The Revolution. She traveled the United States and Europe, and averaged 75 to 100 speeches per year. She was one of the important advocates in leading the way for women's rights to be acknowledged and instituted in the American government. Her birthday on February 15, is commemorated as Susan B. Anthony Day in the U.S. states of Florida and Wisconsin. » Full Bio» See All 'Quotable Quotes'
This Day In History 241 Years Ago
June 9, 1772
British Customs Vessel, Gaspee,
Burns Off Rhode Island
British Customs Vessel, Gaspee,
Burns Off Rhode Island
The American Revolutionary War
On this day in 1772, colonists, angered by the British Parliament's passing of the Townshend Acts restricting colonial trade, blacken their faces and board the HMS Gaspee, an armed British customs schooner that had run aground off the coast of Rhode Island. They then wounded the ship's commander and set it aflame.
The Gaspee was pursuing American Captain Thomas Lindsey's packet from Newport, when it ran aground off Namquit Point in Providence's Narragansett Bay on June 9. That evening, John Brown, an American merchant angered by high British taxes on his goods, rowed out to the Gaspee with eight long-boats with muffled oars and as a many as 67 colonists and seized control of the ship, shooting its Scottish captain, Lieutenant William Dudingston, in the abdomen. After sending the wounded captain and his crew to shore at Pawtuxet, the Americans set the Gaspee on fire. » Full Article
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