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On This Day: Susan B. Anthony Votes in Presidential Election
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/on-this-day/November/Susan-B-Anthony-Votes.html
On Nov. 5, 1872, 48 years before the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote, women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony and a group of women in Rochester, N.Y., cast votes in the presidential election.
Anthony Arrested for Casting Vote
Susan B. Anthony had been dedicating her life to the women’s rights movement since the early 1850s. After the Civil War, when Congress sought to pass an amendment granting black males the right to vote, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led the call for the right to be extended to women.
“Meeting little success, they adopted a ‘new departure’ strategy which interpreted the 14th Amendment as granting all naturalized and native born Americans citizenship, believing that particular status inherently conferred suffrage rights,” explains the Office of the Clerk.
On Nov. 1, 1872, she led a group of women, including her three sisters, to a voter registration office in Rochester, N.Y., and demanded that they be allowed to register under the protections of the 14th Amendment. Women in other parts of the country did the same, but they would not have the success of Anthony.
Anthony, according to Ann D. Gordon of Rutgers University, did not anticipate that she would be allowed to vote. Rather, “she expected to be denied registration as a voter and subsequently to sue for her right to vote in federal court.”
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On Nov. 5, 1872, 48 years before the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote, women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony and a group of women in Rochester, N.Y., cast votes in the presidential election.
Anthony Arrested for Casting Vote
Susan B. Anthony had been dedicating her life to the women’s rights movement since the early 1850s. After the Civil War, when Congress sought to pass an amendment granting black males the right to vote, Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led the call for the right to be extended to women.
“Meeting little success, they adopted a ‘new departure’ strategy which interpreted the 14th Amendment as granting all naturalized and native born Americans citizenship, believing that particular status inherently conferred suffrage rights,” explains the Office of the Clerk.
On Nov. 1, 1872, she led a group of women, including her three sisters, to a voter registration office in Rochester, N.Y., and demanded that they be allowed to register under the protections of the 14th Amendment. Women in other parts of the country did the same, but they would not have the success of Anthony.
Anthony, according to Ann D. Gordon of Rutgers University, did not anticipate that she would be allowed to vote. Rather, “she expected to be denied registration as a voter and subsequently to sue for her right to vote in federal court.”
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No one should take this right for granted, especially women.
Check with everyone you know and ask if they need help getting to the polls tomorrow, or if they know anyone who needs help getting to the polls.
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Susan B Anthony pummeled and arrested for attempting to vote in 1872. She was fined $100 for registering to vote. Ladies please get out there and vote!
On edit: Another source has this caption for the same image.
English police and gentlemen beating suffragist Sylvia Pankhurst in 1901.
