Title

Failure is impossible : Susan B. Anthony in her own words

Description

Compilation of quotes from Susan B. Anthony.

Identifier

523771

812924304

Creator

Sherr, Lynn

Format

1st ed.

Contributor

Anthony, Susan B

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1995

Program air date: March 5, 1995

Publisher

Times Books

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpapers: Black silk dress. 5 full-fledged biographies. Drinking, Smoking, Single Women, equal pay, sexual harassment. Right eye, false teeth, Quaker roots, 5'5", Bloomers p. 190. Some thought: Black vote first; supporter of temperance. What was the cause. S.B.A.--The diaries in Library of Congress. Scrapbooks in Library of Congress. Retired 80 yrs. old. 1820-1906-86 died. Feb. 15th B.D. Rochester-Frederick Douglass, Sus. B. Anthony. Daughters of Temperance. Today's new sensitive man p. 295. Quaker. Women's Bible. Relationship with Mormon women. The revolution-newspaper-gave up nights. Underlinings/Notes: Underlinings: locations of Susan B. Anthony monuments/memorials; issues she fought for; physical description of Anthony; her early life and family. Relationships with other women: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Clara Barton. Friendship with Frederick Douglass. National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)/National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). By age 58 148 lectures in 7 months to 42,000 people; 75-100 speeches a year for 45 years. Chonology of federal woman suffrage proposals. Notes: "Vote," "antislavery lecture," "Negro's Hour," "women no money," "nothing anti-church," "Mrs. Hayes," "'Male' 1865 Black vote," "movement had own committee room," "voted for Grant," "guilty and fined," "speaking advice," "wrote down speech," "The Lecture," "Speech 1870/80s," "Aunt Susan," "relationships between women," "1851 first met," "public school and kids," "red shawl," "The Cause," "no outdoor statues," "Longed for affection." "Dead March 13, 1906," "Failure is impossible," "19th Amendment," "26 million women can vote," "Just want to say thank you every Feb. 15--her birthday 1820-1906."

Subject

"Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906."

"Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906."

"Feminists--United States--Biography."

"Suffragists--United States--Biography."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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