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SUSAN B. ANTHONY
REBEL, CRUSADER, HUMANITARIAN
BY ALMA LUTZ
ZENGER PUBLISHING CO. INC.
BOX 9883, WASHINGTON DC 20015
Susan B. AnthonyAlma Lutz was born and brought up in North Dakota, graduated from theEmma Willard School and Vassar College, and attended the BostonUniversity School of Business Administration. She has written numerousarticles and pamphlets and for many years has been a contributor toThe Christian Science Monitor. Active in organizations working forthe political, civil, and economic rights of women, she has also beeninterested in preserving the records of women's role in history andserves on the Advisory Board of the Radcliffe Women's Archives. MissLutz is the author of Emma Willard, Daughter of Democracy (1929),Created Equal, A Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1940),Challenging Years, The Memoirs of Harriot Stanton Blatch, withHarriot Stanton Blatch (1940), and the editor of With Love Jane,Letters from American Women on the War Fronts (1945).
© 1959 by Alma Lutz
Member of the Authors League of America
Published by arrangement with
Beacon Press
All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Lutz, Alma.
Susan B. Anthony: rebel, crusader, humanitarian.
Reprint of the ed. published by Beacon Press, Boston.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820-1906.
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To the young women of today
PREFACE
To strive for liberty and for a democratic way of life has always beena noble tradition of our country. Susan B. Anthony followed thistradition. Convinced that the principle of equal rights for all, asstated in the Declaration of Independence, must be expressed in thelaws of a true republic, she devoted her life to the establishment ofthis ideal.
Because she recognized in Negro slavery and in the legal bondage ofwomen flagrant violations of this principle, she became an active,courageous, effective antislavery crusader and a champion of civil andpolitical rights for women. She saw women's struggle for freedom fromlegal restrictions as an important phase in the development ofAmerican democracy. To her this struggle was never a battle of thesexes, but a battle such as any freedom-loving people would wage forcivil and political rights.
While her goals for women were only partially realized in herlifetime, she prepared the soil for the acceptance not only of herlong-hoped-for federal woman suffrage amendment but for a worldwiderecognition of human rights, now expressed in the United NationsCharter and the Declaration of Human Rights. She looked forward to