Miss Lulu had a baby, she called him tiny Tim.
She put him in the bathtub, so see if he could swim.
He drank up all the water! He ate up all the soap!
He tried to swallow the bathtub, but it wouldn't go down his throat!!
Call for the doctor!
Call for the nurse!
Call for the lady with the alligator purse!
"Mumps!" said the doctor. "Measles!" said the nurse.
"Vote!!" said the lady with the alligator purse!!
Ever wondered who the lady with the alligator purse is?
I was shocked to learn that 'the lady with the alligator purse', is actually Susan B. Anthony. But, who the heck is Susan B. Anthony?
Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 and stood for many things. She was known most for her work with woman's suffrage. Never known to back down, Susan B. Anthony and her alligator purse traveled the country in the hopes to educate and change the laws that banned married women everywhere from simple things such as; opening bank accounts, entering into a contract, renting a place to live, or being able to sue someone.
What's woman's suffrage?
Suffrage means the political right to vote, therefore woman's suffrage is a woman's right to vote. In the time period between 1870-1920 this was a heated debate. Even now, the discussion about inequalities between men and women is still heated and seems unending. Susan B. Anthony took us from little rights to every right a man has, but still we fight over the idea that woman only earn 70 cents to a man's dollar.
Susan B. Anthony stood firm in her beliefs. She gathered 10,000 signatures and got 26 states to petition with her for woman's suffrage, but still she was met with resistance from Congress who simply laughed in her face. Despite this, on August 18, 1920, American adult women finally gained the right to vote when the Nineteenth Amendment, nicknamed the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, was passed. The Nineteenth Amendment states that no one should be denied the right to vote on account of their sex.
The following is a video posted on youtube discussing the history of woman's suffrage:
Without Susan B. Anthony, we, as women, may never have reached the point of where we are now. Divorced women are not shunned by the community, single women are not in a race to the chapel, and married women have the same rights a man does. Women have come an extremely long way since the time of the lady with the alligator purse, and as a nation we should be completely grateful for her contributions to our society.
"Susan B. Anthony House :: Her Story." The Official Susan B. Anthony House :: Home. Web. 11 Nov. 2011. <http://susanbanthonyhouse.org/her-story.php>.
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