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Susan B. Anthony (Women of Achievement)

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This is the second book in the Women of Achievement Series that I have checked out of my local library and have read. And they are so informative in such a pleasant way, that I just can't help but think this is what biographies should always be like! This particular book opens with a very dramatic chapter on the arrest and trial of Susan B. Anthony for the then crime of Voting! Since she was a woman and women couldn't vote back then, she was actually charged with a crime. The book exposes what a fraud the trial was, the judge told the jury what to decide and then dismissed them. The whole thing was a farce. But Susan B. Anthony, ever the undaunted suffragist, continued her struggle for obtaining the right to vote for women. We learn some history of her family, her Father was a forward thinking Quaker and her Mother a Baptist who liked to sing and wear pretty clothes. Susan B. Anthony was afforded education at a time when others were not and she became involved in the abolitionist and temperance movements. Ironically, when her father suggested to her once that women should vote she laughed at him and told him he was way ahead of the times. But, as history evolves, Susan B. Anthony becomes the main crusader for woman suffrage and we all owe a great debt to her courage and determination in securing a right that she never got to exercise. I thought it was touching how on her death bead she recited all the names of the hundreds of women who were involved in the suffrage movement with her. It really meant a lot to her and my eyes watered as I read it. This book is appropriate for middle readers on up to adults. It includes lots of relevant pictures and sketches. It is well written and I recommend it and recommend it some more.