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in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States, and before the assembled world we demand Justice, we demand the recognition by the government of the political rights of all citizens, and their guaranteed security independent of accidents of birth, of sex; we demand their recognition on ground of the natural and fundamental rights of each individual to selfgovernment, in order to the formation and perfection of a true Republic.
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Alhambra, Calif. March 14, 1930 Why Mathilde Franziska Anneke should be nominated for the National Roll of Honor.
Because she stood for Woman's Rights at an early age, when it took courage, capability and insight to do so and very few women had any progressive ideas. her work, starting in her home Westphalia, Germany, where she published a paper in behalf of Woman's Rights in 1847, continued in our United States after coming over with her husband as fugitives in 1849, again published a Woman's Rights paper, spoke at conventions, for instance at Broadway Tabernacle , a convention of unique and historic value, September 1853 when women were insulted by mobs and protected by Wendell Phillips. Here she was nominated as Vice President (Lucretia Mott, President) together with the best women and men of the time. (See "History of Woman Suffrage" by Stanton, Anthony, Gage). Mistake in History of Woman Suffrage Page 572, Volume I. She went to the battlefields not at the side of Kossuth in Hungary but at her husband's side in Germany, transmitting orders alternately with Carl Schurz, both as aid-de-camps of Col. Fritz Anneke. Took part in conventions at New York City, Washington, D.C. (where she spoke in English, with some foreign accent to be sure, but yet compared in her earnestness of feeling and rendition of speech to the great Louis Kossuth) Milwaukee, etc. became an esteemed an intimate friend of our best forerunners in the cause Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Wendell Phillips, W. Lloyd Garrison, Gerrit Smith and others. Went as delegate to conventions numerous times.
On the 4th of June 1904 in her opening address of the International Congress in Berlin for Woman's Rights, Susan B. Anthony spoke of "a courageous Westphalian woman, who had fought as a faithful co-worker, year after year, side by side with her for the achievement of Woman's Rights, and whose work doubtless we have to thank for what had been gained in America in this direction. This woman's name was Mathilde Franziaka Anneke."
Born in 1817 in Westphalia, Germany died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1884, where she conducted a school for young girls for eighteen years until one year before she died. Many scholars in different parts of our globe still live, honoring her memory and loving her for the good she instilled into them and help make their lives beautiful and happy.
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