Susan B Anthony Powerpoint
- 1. Molly Miller, Anita Sayyed, & Sara Worel
- 2. The “Cult of Womanhood” Pre-Civil war - Slavery By law men had ownership over women
- 3. Things women could not do: Attend college Own/ inherit property Pulpit Sign contracts Divorce Sit on jury/ testify for themselves Vote
- 4. Susan B. Anthony was born February 15, 1820 in Adams, MA Father was a Quaker, Mother was a Baptist Father was a reformist Temperance Abolitionist Father hosted weekly gatherings of activist known as “Congregational Friends” She became a teacher to help her family financially
- 5. Temperance advocate Benefit women Abolitionist Freedom & Equality for all Women’s Rights advocate Antony’s strengths: lecturing, and organizing rallies & petitions
- 6. July 1848 Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, NY 1851 Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pivotal relationship to the movement Antony was the drive, Stanton was the brains Antony toured the country lecturing 1860 Married Women’s Property Act- NY state Property, wages, contracts, children Civil War- halt in the movement Women’s Loyal League To abolish slavery- petition of 400,000 signatures
- 7. 1866 American Equal Rights Association Support the rights of all human beings 14th Amendment- Citizenship 15th Amendment- Vote for African American Males National Women’s Suffrage Association Rivalry with the American Women's Suffrage Association
- 8. November 5th 1872- Anthony voted & arrested 1/10/1878- Amendment introduced to Congress Written & proposed by Anthony & Stanton Women’s vote Took 41 years to ratify Vote was important to further change
- 9. Attended the 1906 convention at 86 years old She caught a cold Passed away on March 12, 1906 Fought for 60 years and never saw women vote 19th Amendment granted women the vote August 1920
- 10. Daft defines leadership: “An influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes and outcomes that reflect their shared purposes.”(Ch. 1, Pg. 5)
- 11. Transformational Leader Authentic Leader: Self-aware and genuine Mission driven and focused on results Lead with their heart Focus on the long term Effective Leader
- 12. Extroversion Outgoing, sociable, talkative, and comfortable meeting new people Agreeableness Compassionate, understanding, trusting, good-natured, and cooperative Conscientiousness Responsible, dependable, persistent, and achievement oriented Emotional Stability Well-adjusted, calm, and secure Openness to Experience Broad range of interests, imaginative, creative, and open to new ideas
- 13. Susan used referent power Followers of Susan were committed “Change carries risk or uncertainty, and follower commitment helps to overcome fear and resistance associated with change efforts,” (Daft, pg. 374) Self-directed team Effective followers
- 14. Managing up Be a resource for the leader Help the leader be a good leader Build a relationship View the leader realistically
- 15. Life story shaped her personality Quaker background Activist father and siblings Early activism Women’s State Temperance Society
- 16. Active abolitionist since age 16 Male abolitionist willing to sacrifice women’s voting rights Formed National Women’s suffrage Association (NWSA)
- 17. Only voting rights would allow women to have real impact on policy and society NWSA and AWSA Got Arrested and refused to pay fine
- 18. Strike breaker in 1869 Funding from George Francis Train Some of her writing may be considered racist
- 19. The 19th amendment passed in 1920, 15 years after her death Her leadership inspired her followers to further continue her cause. “The cause of right for which we labor for never dies, works in long periods, can afford many checks, gains by our defeats and will know how to compensate out extremest sacrifice” (From the Reminiscences of Famous women By Harriet A Townsend, published in 1916)
- 20. “Let us open to the colored man all our schools...let us admit him into all our mechanic shops, stores, offices, and lucrative business avocations….let him rent such pew in the church, occupy such seat in the theatre….extend to him all the rights of Citizenship” (Manuscript of speech in the Susan B. Anthony Papers collection at the Library of Congress. Quoted in McPherson (1964), p. 225)
- 21. “I never felt I could give up my life of freedom to become a man’s housekeeper. When I was young, if a girl married poor, she became a housekeeper and a drudge. If she married wealth she became a pet and a doll. Just think, had I married at twenty, I would have been a drudge or a doll for fifty-nine years. Think of it” (New York World, February 2, 1896, quoted in Harper Vol. 2 pp. 858-860)
- 22. Lifelong partners in the women’s suffrage movement and a unique team Stanton was married and had seven children Anthony assisted Stanton in every way possible Stanton’s husband was quoted to say “Susan stirred the puddings, Elizabeth stirred up Susan, Susan stirs up the world” (Stanton (1898) p. 165) Coauthored “History of Women’s Suffrage”
- 23. Woman of many dimensions and supported all causes that elevated the human condition Dedicated all her life for her cause Tolerant of those who disagreed with her Respected individuals Had the faith that the right must win
- 25. Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Dir. Ken Burns. PBS, 1999. "Susan B. Anthony." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. Johnson Lewis, Jone. "Susan B. Anthony, Key Women's Suffrage Spokesperson."About.com Women's History. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 June 2014. Daft, Richard L. The Leadership Experience. Australia: Cengage Learning, 2014. Print. Kruse, Kevin. "What Is Authentic Leadership?" Forbes. Forbes Magazine, 12 May 2013. Web.
Editor's Notes
- #16: Her life story shaped her personality to form the historical figure she is today. Her Quaker roots and activist father influenced her be a social activist early on and as Molly touched upon earlier she supported the cause of abolitionists, equal rights and temperance. It was only when she was not allowed to speak at state temperance convention she along with other women activists formed “Women’s State Temperance Society”
- #17: She learnt from her experiences. From a young age she was an active abolitionist. She and other women played key role in in passing of the 13th amendment. However, when male abolitionists, although supporters of women’s rights, believed that an active women’s rights movement would take away attention from the abolitionist movement and would negatively impact it, she realized that they were willing to sacrifice women’s voting right for the success of their cause. Hence she focused on women’s suffrage and formed The National Women’s Suffrage Association along with Elizabeth Stanton.
- #18: Anthony had the vision to realize that it was only voting rights that would effectively elevate women’s sufferings and allow them to have an impact on policy and society. Hence while other activists were involved in many other aspects of women’ issues, Susan B Anthony was focused primarily on the suffrage movement and was willing to go to any length to achieve her purpose. This led to a split the women’s movement in two bitter rival associations .i.e. the NWSA and AWSA. The rivalry lasted more than 20 years. In order to prove that the constitution already gave women the right to vote, she attempted to cast her vote in the general elections of 1872. She got arrested and refused to pay her fine.
- #19: Miss Anthony for the success of her cause was willing to go to any lengths and some of her actions were questionable. In 1869, while printers were on strike she approved the training and employment of women workers to replace the striking workers and was accused of being a strike breaker. She also took money from George Francis Train to fund the initial publishing of her newspaper “The Revolution”. Train was a controversial business man who supported women’s suffrage but had radical and racial views. Even some of her writing were quite racist by today’s standards but these were mainly from the period in which she was protesting the 15th amendment. Hence she was not beyond reproach.
- #20: The most important lesson that we learn from her life story is her perseverance. She spent all her life struggling for a cause that she did not live to see accomplished. The 19th amendment, also known as the Susan B Anthony amendment giving women the right to vote was passed in 1920, a decade and a half after Susan Anthony’s death. However this never caused her to give up hope and stop struggling. She continued her activist work till the end days of her life. And her leadership inspired her followers to continue her struggle till they were finally successful.
- #22: Susan B Anthony never married and this gave her an advantage to continue her work without being dependent on a man
- #23: Elizabeth Stanton was a lifelong friend and partner in her struggle for the suffrage movement. They made a unique team with Mrs Staton providing the thought and influence behind the movement and Anthony provided the administrative resources, travelled and spoke publically. Stanton was married and was a mother of seven children and Antony often helped Elisabeth in every way to continue her work. According to one of her biographers, she was like a second mother to Elisabeth’s children and often lived with the Stantons. Anthony co- authored with Stanton the History of women’s suffrage. What was initially intended to be a short documentation of the suffrage movement as Anthony hated writing , ended up to be a six volume documentation of The history of women’s suffrage written over a period of 41 years and serves as the major documentation of the history of women’s suffrage movement.