Susan B. Anthony Defies Law: Votes for Women's Rights
Susan B. Anthony cast her ballot in defiance of state law, triggering a legal battle that forced the nation to confront the contradiction between its democratic ideals and the exclusion of women from the polls. Her subsequent $100 fine galvanized the movement, transforming a single act of civil disobedience into a rallying cry that fueled decades of activism leading to the Nineteenth Amendment.
November 1, 1872
154 years ago
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