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The
Anthony Trial: An Account
by
Douglas
Linder (c) 2001
More than any other woman of her
generation, Susan
B. Anthony saw that all of the legal disabilities faced by American
women
owed their existence to the simple fact that women lacked the
vote.
When Anthony, at age 32, attended her first woman's rights convention
in
Syracuse in 1852, she declared "that the right which woman needed above
every other, the one indeed which would secure to her all the others,
was
the right of suffrage." Anthony spent the next fifty-plus years
of
her life fighting for the right to vote. She would work tirelessly:
giving
speeches, petitioning Congress and state legislatures, publishing a
feminist
newspaper--all for a cause that would not succeed until the
ratification
of the Nineteenth Amendment fourteen years after her death in 1906.
She would, however, once have the
satisfaction of
seeing her completed ballot drop through the opening of a ballot
box.
It happened in Rochester, New York on November 5, 1872, and the
event--and
the trial for illegal voting that followed--would create a opportunity
for Anthony to spread her arguments for women suffrage to a wider
audience
than ever before....
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