2010 is the 90th anniversary of the 19th Amendment which gave women the vote, plus the 90th anniversary of the League of Women Voters, an exciting year to celebrate the efforts of Miss Anthony.

February 15th is her birthday,  March is Woman's History Month, and April features Equal Pay Day.  August 26 is Equality Day, October features National Business Women's Week, and November is voting month.

Men- Come to challenge Miss Anthony's ideas.  Do you want your wife meddling in politics?  No amount of foot stomping and jeering can keep this suffragist from speaking her mind.

Miss Anthony visited so many territories and states in her lifetime that enactor Sally Matson is happy to adjust  the script to include anecdotes from your state or region.  "Being an historical impersonator is a constant challenge; research is on-going."

SHE'S FIGHTING FOR YOU!  Miss Anthony worked diligently for abolition as an agent for the NY State Anti-Slavery Society.  Later she concentrated on equal rights for women: in education, in the workplace, in marriage, and especially in the voting booth. Would she be pleased with the progress we have made? 

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS & CORPORATIONS  Miss Anthony's story parallels many issues in the news today. Discussion questions and a bibliography on diversity issues will be shared with the audience.

SCHOOLS:. Appropriate for 4th-8th grades, high school. Curriculum connections:  Biography, Citizenship, Voting, Constitution, Women's Rights, Slavery, Civil War, Westward Expansion, Transportation, Communication, Primary Source Materials.  Appropriate for language arts, social studies, geography. An extensive study guide is available.

Anthony,  Katharine.  Susan B. Anthony: Her Personal History and Her Era. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1954

Barry, Kathleen.  Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist. New York:

University Press, 1988.

Bohannon, Lisa Frederiksen.  Failure is Impossible- The Story of Susan B. Anthony. Greensboro, North Carolina: Morgan Reynolds, Inc. 620 S. Elm Street, 2002.

Cooney, Robert P.J., Jr. Winning the Vote: The Triumph of the American Woman Suffrage Movement. Santa Cruz, CA: American Graphic Press. 2005 (excellent photos)

Corbin, Carole Lynn.  The Right to Vote- Issues in American History. New York, London, Toronto, Sydney: Franklin Watts, 1985.

DuBois, Ellen Carol. Ed.  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony Reader- Correspondence, Writings, Speeches. New York:  Schocken Books, 1981.

Duniway, Abigail Scott. Pathbreaking: An Autobiographical History of the Equal Suffrage Movement in the Pacific Coast States. New York: Schocken, 1971.  Reprint.

Edwards, G. Thomas. Sowing Good Seeds: The Northwest Suffrage Campaigns of Susan B. Anthony. Portland, Oregon: The Oregon Historical Society, 1230 SW Park, 1990

Freedman, Estelle B. No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women. New York: Ballantine Books, 2002.

Harper, Ida Husted.   Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony. New York: Bowen Merrill,

1908.  Copyright renewed- Arno Press, Inc., 1969.

Hill, Jeff.  Defining Moments in Women's Suffrage. Michigan: Omnigraphcs, Inc., 2006.

Holland, Patricia D. and Gordon, Ann D.  Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Microfilm Guide and Index. 1991. 

Kerr, Andrea Moore. Lucy Stone: Speaking Out for Equality. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1992.

Lamar, Howard R. Ed. The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West. Woman Suffrage New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1977.

Lutz, Alma.  Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian.  Boston: Beacon Press,

Beacon Hill, 1959.

McDonough, Yona Zeldis.  Sisters in Strength.  New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2000.

Patterson, Thomas E. The Vanishing Voter-Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty.

New York: Random House, Inc., 2002

Penney, Sherry H. & Livingston, James D. A Very Dangerous Woman-Martha Wright and Women's Rights. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004.

Sherr, Lynn.  Failure is lmpossible-Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words. New York:

Times Book,  Division of Random House, Inc., 1995.

Smith, Page. Trial by Fire: A People's History of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1982.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady.  Eighty Years and More:Reminiscences 1815-1897. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993.  First published, 1898.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady.  The Solitude of Self         The Womenï's Bible

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Ida Husted Harper.

History of Woman Suffrage.  Volumes 1,2,3; Anthony and Harper Volume4 ; Harper  Volume 5,6. New York: The New York Times, volumes reprinted in 1969.

Stauffer, John.  Giants- The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln.  New York: Hatchet Book Group, 2008

THE REVOLUTION- 1869  Newspaper published by Susan B. Anthony; editors Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Parker Pillsbury- Schlesinger Library

Research:

The Merrimack Valley Library Consortium         Massachusetts

Primary Sources:

Boston Public Library                                           Boston, Massachusetts

     Microfilm of most letters, speeches                 (see Holland above)

Schlesinger Library-Harvard                                Cambridge, MA

Huntington Library                                               San Marino, CA

American Textile History Museum (Library)       Lowell, Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts Library                    Lowell, Massachusetts

Susan B. Anthony House                                      Rochester, New York

University of Rochester Symposium 2006           Rochester, New York

                                                 Seneca Falls, NY- honors historic and contemporary women;

                                                 site of the 1848 Women's Rights Convention 

www.nwhm.org  National Women's History Museum

www.nwhp.org National Women's History Project- (brought us Women's History Month)

                          Huge source of women's history info

www.fortune.com     Look for  Top 20 companies, 100 Best Companies

                             Companies offering flextime, job sharing, child care, referral services, etc.

                             Companies that focus on recruiting, training, retaining women

www.socialstep.com/givingback/give2.asp  New York Young Adult Club of the National       

          Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc.  (NANBPW)

www.bpwusa.org Business and Professional Women USA;  to achieve equity for all women

                                                                            through advocacy, education and information

                        see  BPW Foundation- 101 Facts on Status of Working Women

www.catalystwomen.org/    Non-profit organization to advance women in business

          Women gained ground as Board Committee Chairs; overall women's representation in

          senior leadership positions stagnates;  Damned or Doomed-Study on gender stereotyping.

www3.babson.edu/cwl/  Babson College Center for Women's Leadership-(CWL)   A Site for

          Working Women, Women Leaders, and Women in Business

          Lists the top women led businesses; the # of women in family owned businesses has

          increased by 37% in last five years.

www.aauw.org   American Association of University Women- equity for all women and girls,

           lifelong education and positive societal change; open to women with Associates Degree

           or higher.

www.lwv.org     League of Women Voters - In Westport, CT  the League developed a course for

                           high school seniors crystallizing the importance of voting:  The Power of One.

www.massnow@massnow.org -  NOW  dedicated to making legal, political, social, and

                                          economic change in order to eliminate sexism and end all oppression 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books for Business

Patterson, Thomas.  The Vanishing Voter

Hewlett, Sylvia Ann and Luce, Carolyn Buck. �Off-Ramps and On-Ramps � Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success. Harvard Business Review. March, 2005. p.43-54.

The following books are listed on the Babson College   Center for Women's Leadership website:

Murphy, Evelyn. Getting Even: Why Women Don�t Get Paid Like Men & What to Do About It.

Lichtenberg ,  Ronna.  Pitch Like a Girl

Puhn, Laurie.  Instant Persuasion.

Frankel, Lois.  Nice Girls Don�t Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious Mistakes Women

                           Make that Sabotage Their Careers

Greene, Patti & Hart, Myra.  Clearing the Hurdles-   information about starting a new venture

Bates, Suzanne.  Speak Like a CEO     meetings, interviews, speeches-  how to be effective

Welch, Jack & Suzi.   Winning         about CEO management skills

Sachs, Wendy.  How She Really Does It.      About working outside the home plus children

Phillips, Lois.   Women Seen and Heard    Communication  20%  is what you say

                                                                                                80% is how you say it

Lenehan, Pam.   What You Don't Know and What Your Boss Won't Tell You

Additional:

Falk, Erika.        Women for President-Media Bias in Eight Campaigns

Susan B. Anthony-the Invincible!

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