See Also:
Beginning of a Famous Hero: The Rachel Joy Scott Story.
Life Lesson #54 – The Golden Rule.
Little Susan was born in February of 1820. Susan grew up learning about self-discipline and strong convictions and courage to do things that she knew ought to be done. She was only three years old when she learned to read and write!
Later, Mr. Anthony sent Susan to a boarding school near Philadelphia. Soon, she became a teacher at a boarding school. That’s when she discovered that men who did the same job as she was doing got paid a lot more than women. She knew that could not be right. And only men could vote. “That certainly was not right, either,” she thought. Women should have the same rights as men! So, Susan did something about it—she VOTED!! That took a lot of courage, too! No woman in America had ever done that before!
Well, at first she got into a lot of trouble for doing that, but later people began to realize she was right—women should indeed be able to vote just like men. And women should be paid the same as men for doing the same job. That’s what became known as “equal rights.”
Her efforts to bring about fairness took a long time to really catch on, but she is the one who started people seriously thinking about “equal rights for women.” You see, she had the courage to stand up and tell people what they were doing was wrong! Today, you can see her picture on the silver one-dollar coin as a way to honor her because Susan B. Anthony certainly was a HERO.
– Jim Lord