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Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17.
Susan B. Anthony. United States v. Susan B. Anthony was the criminal trial of Susan B. Anthony in a U.S. federal court in 1873. The defendant was a leader of the women's suffrage movement who was arrested for voting in Rochester, New York in the 1872 elections in violation of state laws that allowed only men to vote.
Since 2016, thousands of women have made the pilgrimage to suffragette Susan B. Anthony's grave in Rochester, ... She was arrested two weeks after casting her vote, as suffrage for women would not ...
Susan B. Anthony House, in Rochester, New York, was the home of Susan B. Anthony for forty years, while she was a national figure in the women's rights movement. She was arrested in the front parlor after voting in the 1872 Presidential Election. She resided here until her death. [3]
In 1872, Anthony was arrested for voting in the presidential election. Today, New York residents can cast early ballots in the same location. ... Susan B. Anthony’s home in Rochester, N.Y., is ...
In 1872, Susan B. Anthony convinced some election officials to allow her to vote in that year's presidential elections, for which she was arrested and found guilty in a widely publicized trial. The judge at the trial was Justice Ward Hunt , who had recently been appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court and who conducted the trial as part of the ...
Lucy Branham, in prison dress, speaking on the Prison Special tour. The "Prison Special" was a train tour organized by suffragists who, as members of the Silent Sentinels and other demonstrations, had been jailed for picketing the White House in support of passage of the federal women's suffrage amendment. [1]
Susan B. Anthony: Northern District of New York: June 18, 1873 $100 fine and the cost of prosecution Illegal voting Anthony, a women's rights and women's suffrage activist, famously cast a ballot in the 1872 presidential election; prosecuted and convicted of violating the Enforcement Act of 1870; she never paid the fine.