The Susan B Anthony Few Know

The Susan B. Anthony Few Know By Elton Camp In our day, Anthony is a person of note Mostly in connection with womens’ vote But name just one other thing she did do Those who could do it are extremely few Her image was on a dollar that didn’t do well Is just about most people would be able to tell We likely recall her visage that looked so stern, But, in school, little about her work did we learn She was active in urging and end to alcohol abuse To try to speak at temperance rallies was no use For a mere woman to address such a large crowd Why, it just simply was shocking and not allowed Opposition to slavery was a cause she advocated Reasons to abolish the horrible practice she related Both Douglass and Garrison she knew as friend And planned with them how slavery best to end Using speeches, posters, leaflets slavery to defeat, Was hung in effigy, image dragged in the street Property a woman owned, her husband could claim Nothing of value could she hold in her own name Women a college education weren’t allowed to get With the University of Rochester, Anthony had a fit Until the college came to admit it had made a mistake And agreed that women as well as men they would take About another injustice Susan B. Anthony had a say It is fair that women, for equal work, get equal pay She demanded that women to professions be admitted With minds as good as men, to any occupation fitted Anthony also agitated for a workday eight hours long Shifts longer than that she explained, were just wrong She encouraged women to enter into the printing trade And for all to purchase goods that were American made Her newspaper read, “Men their rights, and nothing more” “Women their rights and nothing less.” Injustice did abhor. Despite all the things the rights crusader came to do and say, Very few know that February 15th is Susan B. Anthony Day