Susan B. Anthony by Esther

Susan B. Anthony Speech

By Esther  

Good day. (Curtsy) My name is Susan Brownell Anthony. I was born in 1820 in Adams Massachusetts. My family was a religious people called Quakers. I had eight siblings. My father owned a cotton mill.

 

I finished school when I was 17 and became a teacher. (Takes off glasses) Then I found out while I was being paid only $2.00 men were being paid four or five times more than women. (Take out glasses and handkerchief and wipe glasses)

 

I also thought women should have the right to vote so one day I went to the voting area. I was arrested and fined 100 dollars. I did not pay the fine and it still has not been paid.

 

I met Elisabeth Cady in 1851 we made a newspaper called “Women’s Suffrage”. I died in 1906.