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Friday, June 25, 2010

Which famous person (dead or alive) I admire the most, and why


The famous person I admire most is probably Susan B. Anthony. She lived 1820-1906, she was a women's rights activist who helped women have the right to vote. She also started the temperance movement, where she helped women and children who were abused by alcoholic husbands. She also joined the antislavery movement which started in 1856 and continued till the outbreak of the civil war. After she published the New York liberal "the Revolution" (1868-70) which called for equal pay for women. She then with a group of women went to the polls to vote and were arrested. She tried a seconed time and was arrested again. The seconed time she refused to pay her fines. She then went across the country giving speeches on women's rights to vote. Susan died 1906, sadly she did not get to see women have their rights, but they added the 19th ammendment which is in honor of her efforts. Susan B. Anthony is now on the dollar coin.

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