Susan B. Anthony

...also give short talks about world religions and philosophies and about "famous freethinkers" such as Lance Armstrong, Isaac Asimov, Susan B. Anthony, Frederick Douglass, Ted Turner and Alice Walker. Lessons are "academic and focused on...

In this article: God, Cincinnati, and Ted Turner

...Evenings in The Great Hall" series, the evening will include songs of the suffrage era, as well as the words of early feminists including Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Victoria Woodhull and Emma Goldman. Lauren Keating will...

In this article: Cooper Union, Frederick Douglas, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Victoria Woodhull

...a bad idea in a heavily-Catholic part of the country), referring to scripture (John 16:13) and noting that such feminist pioneers as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton had opposed abortion (she called them "foremothers"). She also...

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...was a 19th-century suffragist who was the first American woman to revert to her birth name after marriage. She even had to chastise one Susan B. Anthony by writing to Suze, "A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers."

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...Plot" failed as Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parliament. On this date: In 1872, suffragist Susan B. Anthony defied the law by attempting to vote for President Ulysses S. Grant. (Anthony was convicted by...

In this article: Spencer W. Kimball, New York, Justice Department, Guy Fawkes, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rock, Monopoly, Kyoto Protocol, and Global warming

...creative and innovative methods. There are various ways in which activism can take place, specifically within the women's rights movement. Susan B. Anthony and Alice Paul did not have the advantages of technology that young feminists do...

In this article: Alice Paul

It's conceivable they protected and cooled the crowds attending Frederick Douglass' antislavery rally in August 1844 or witnessing Susan B. Anthony interrupting Centennial ceremonies with her Declaration of the Rights of Women on July 4,...

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...freely admits that in 1992 and 1993 he did indeed vote in his girlfriend's district - making him the only person besides suffragette Susan B. Anthony to be convicted of the obscure fraud charge. He was disbarred, paid a $20,000 fine and...

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...that the National Council of Women of the United States chose me to receive the inaugural Susan B. Anthony Humanitarian Award. Susan B. Anthony was a true pioneer and if I achieve a tiny amount of what she achieved I will be very happy."

In this article: Ann Gloag, National Council of Women, United States, Scotland, Africa, Mercy Ships, and National Council

...War," "Baseball" and "Jazz." He's traced the lives of Thomas Jefferson, Mark Twain, Frank Lloyd Wright, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. He's never used a superlative quite like this before, though: His latest work has the grand...

In this article: Thomas Jefferson, PBS, The National Parks, The Congress, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Locke, Mark Twain, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton