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The Trial of Susan B. Anthony: An Illegal Vote, a Courtroom Conviction and a Step Toward Women's Suffrage

By Martin Naparsteck

Book information

Publisher
Publishers, Inc., McFarland & Company
Year
2014
ISBN
9781476617572
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2450632 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-28 05:30:13
HIS036000HistoryNonfictionSOC004000SOC028000SociologyWomen's Studies

Description

Following a public argument with her friend Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony altered her strategy of seeking a broad range of rights for women and blacks and focused exclusively on winning the vote for women. Defying state and federal law, she voted in the presidential election of 1872, and was arrested and tried in a case presided over by a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Ward Hunt, who directed the jury to deliver a guilty verdict. Fined $100, Anthony defiantly told the judge she would never pay—and never did. This is the story of the landmark trial that attracted worldwide attention and made Anthony into the iconic leader of the women's rights movement.

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