We’re back with another fun clue getting you in the mood for the Pussycat alleycat coming in less than a month’s time!
Today’s pioneering feminist inspiring you to find your second virtual checkpoint is the legend, the one, the only, Ms. Susan B. Anthony!
Susie B was quoted as saying, “I think [the bicycle] has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a bike. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat, and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood.” How badass is that?
After teaching for a time in her father’s Quaker school and a female academy in upstate New York, she settled in her family home in Rochester, NY.
Rochester being a hotbed of progressive ideas, Susie B was friends with pioneering thinkers and activists of her day including fellow suffragette Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and abolitionist, escaped slave, autodidact and later advisor to Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass.
Susie B traveled the US giving speeches and advocating for women’s rights and the right to vote. Finally at age 80 she retired from touring and presidency of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Anthony died in 1906, 14 years before the Nineteenth Amendment was passed.
A statue of her and the homie Freddie D having tea and a very serious discussion can be found in Rochester. Where is the statue located? Post your answer in the corresponding Instagram post here.
