Susan B Anthony Tipping Point Analysis

On November 5th 1872, Susan B. Anthony, a suffragette, did the impossible. She marched up to the voting booth in Rochester, New York and tried to place a ballot for Ulysses S. Grant election of 1872. She was arrested before she could place the ballot into the voting booth, but this courageous act created a huge growth and push for The Women's Suffrage movement of 1920. In The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, Gladwell explains the concept of Tipping Points and their effects on global epidemics. Yet he goes into more depth on what factors cause the exact tipping point into the epidemic. The tipping point of Anthony's courageous ballot lead to the epidemic of the Woman's Suffrage Movement, Leading to the 19th Amendment, the women's right to …show more content…
Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were connectors and salesmen for the Women's Suffrage Movement because of their charismatic and sociable qualities to connect women to the movement. “In 1856 Anthony became an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society, arranging meetings, making speeches, putting up posters, and distributing leaflets”(Cosme). The quality of a connector with being outgoing and passionate brings an epidemic to be successful. The connections and dedication that Anthony brings to women’s rights brings the gradual growth to women’s suffrage. Anthony uses her skills of ambition and popularity to connect women who have similar view to work together. In 1863, Anthony and Stanton created a Women's National Loyal League to support and fight for the Nineteenth Amendment outlawing slavery (Cosme). Anthony and Stanton use the skills of a salesman to sell and provide the information to women and the government to give women more rights at the time. At the time Stanton had always advocated women's rights including “divorce law liberalization, and self-sovereignty” (Cosme). The connections that Staton created through women’s rights gave her the credibility to sell these ideas for Amendments to be formed. These two suffragist voices were heard because of their connections and sale tactics to prove to everyone that women deserved the ghit to vote. These factors bring the qualities that Stanton and Anthony used to become …show more content…
Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the stickiness of the 1872 trial of Susan B. Anthony, and a context introducing the new women on the progressive era. As learned in the Law of the Few, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton were connectors and salesmen for the Women's Suffrage Movement. These factors bring the qualities that Stanton and Anthony used to become successful in the epidemic of women’s suffrage. The Stickiness factor played a large part in the official tipping point of the Women’s Suffrage movement. Susan B. Anthony make a daring move to make a “sticky” statement to the United States as a women requesting for certain rights. The official tipping point has the right stickiness to attract an abundance of women to join the Suffrage Movement. Malcolm teaches his audience how the power of context creates the foundation for an epidemic. The birth of the “New Women” creates the context of women’s interest in the suffrage movement. The context of housewives and stereotypical women voicing their opinions about equal rights to men, gives the push of the tipping point of the epidemic of the Women’s Suffrage Movement of 1920 to flourish. The ratification of 19th Amendment proves how important these epidemics are, with the right factors, can change history