Posted on Nov 18, 2020
In 1872, Susan B. Anthony Was Arrested for Voting 'Unlawfully'
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On November 18, 1872, suffragette Susan B. Anthony was arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal and charged with illegally voting. From the article:
"Four days before the election of 1872, Susan B. Anthony marched into a makeshift voter registration office in Rochester, New York, and demanded to be added to the list of eligible voters.
“I made the remark that I didn’t think we could register her name,” recalled election official Beverly W. Jones in court testimony preserved by the National Archives. “She asked me upon what grounds. I told her that the constitution of the State of New York only gave the right of franchise to male citizens. She asked me if I was acquainted with the 14th [A]mendment to the Constitution of the U.S. I told her I was.”
Anthony eventually persuaded Jones and his two young colleagues to accept her registration. On November 5, she and 14 other women cast their ballots in the presidential race between Ulysses S. Grant and Horace Greeley, fully aware that their actions were technically illegal. The pioneering suffragist was later singled out, arrested and charged with voting unlawfully. Her trial took place the following June.
Now, almost 150 years after Anthony’s arrest, President Donald Trump has announced plans to posthumously pardon the activist. Fittingly, the news arrived on the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which enfranchised many—but not all—American women upon its August 18, 1920, ratification.
Anthony is widely considered one of the founders of the early women’s rights movement. But in recent years, she has faced increased scrutiny due to her racist remarks and exclusion of black suffragists from the mainstream movement, note Maggie Haberman and Katie Rogers for the New York Times.
As historian Ann D. Gordon wrote in a 2005 report for the Federal Judicial History Office, the deputy federal marshal who arrested Anthony on November 18 asked her to “accompany him downtown.” In response, she posed a question of her own: “Is that the way you arrest men?” After the officer replied no, Anthony requested to be “arrested properly.”
The incident made national headlines, generating publicity that Anthony used to draw attention to her cause. Before her trial began, reports CNN’s Scottie Andrew, she traveled to 29 towns, promoting women’s suffrage in impassioned speeches that questioned whether it was a crime for U.S. citizens to vote.
Anthony’s actions blatantly transgressed societal expectations at the time. Overt concern with the gender-role implications of her crime is evident in the National Archives testimony, which finds the prosecutor asking, “What was her appearance, as a man or woman?”
Jones replies, “She was dressed as a woman.”
During the two-day trial, Anthony insisted on speaking despite the judge repeatedly telling her to sit down, according to a Library of Congress transcript. Upon receiving the sentence of a $100 fine (roughly $2,150 USD today), she told the judge, “I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty.”
In 1906—just nine years before New York State granted women the right to vote and 14 years before the 19th Amendment was finally ratified—Anthony died at age 86. She’d led the American women’s suffrage movement for much of her adult life.
As CNN reports, some contemporary scholars and politicians argue that Anthony wore her arrest as a badge of honor and wouldn’t have necessarily wanted to be pardoned.
Later in life, note Janet Adamy and Gordon Lubold for the Wall Street Journal, she described the arrest as the 'greatest judicial outrage history has ever recorded.'"
On November 18, 1872, suffragette Susan B. Anthony was arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal and charged with illegally voting. From the article:
"Four days before the election of 1872, Susan B. Anthony marched into a makeshift voter registration office in Rochester, New York, and demanded to be added to the list of eligible voters.
“I made the remark that I didn’t think we could register her name,” recalled election official Beverly W. Jones in court testimony preserved by the National Archives. “She asked me upon what grounds. I told her that the constitution of the State of New York only gave the right of franchise to male citizens. She asked me if I was acquainted with the 14th [A]mendment to the Constitution of the U.S. I told her I was.”
Anthony eventually persuaded Jones and his two young colleagues to accept her registration. On November 5, she and 14 other women cast their ballots in the presidential race between Ulysses S. Grant and Horace Greeley, fully aware that their actions were technically illegal. The pioneering suffragist was later singled out, arrested and charged with voting unlawfully. Her trial took place the following June.
Now, almost 150 years after Anthony’s arrest, President Donald Trump has announced plans to posthumously pardon the activist. Fittingly, the news arrived on the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which enfranchised many—but not all—American women upon its August 18, 1920, ratification.
Anthony is widely considered one of the founders of the early women’s rights movement. But in recent years, she has faced increased scrutiny due to her racist remarks and exclusion of black suffragists from the mainstream movement, note Maggie Haberman and Katie Rogers for the New York Times.
As historian Ann D. Gordon wrote in a 2005 report for the Federal Judicial History Office, the deputy federal marshal who arrested Anthony on November 18 asked her to “accompany him downtown.” In response, she posed a question of her own: “Is that the way you arrest men?” After the officer replied no, Anthony requested to be “arrested properly.”
The incident made national headlines, generating publicity that Anthony used to draw attention to her cause. Before her trial began, reports CNN’s Scottie Andrew, she traveled to 29 towns, promoting women’s suffrage in impassioned speeches that questioned whether it was a crime for U.S. citizens to vote.
Anthony’s actions blatantly transgressed societal expectations at the time. Overt concern with the gender-role implications of her crime is evident in the National Archives testimony, which finds the prosecutor asking, “What was her appearance, as a man or woman?”
Jones replies, “She was dressed as a woman.”
During the two-day trial, Anthony insisted on speaking despite the judge repeatedly telling her to sit down, according to a Library of Congress transcript. Upon receiving the sentence of a $100 fine (roughly $2,150 USD today), she told the judge, “I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty.”
In 1906—just nine years before New York State granted women the right to vote and 14 years before the 19th Amendment was finally ratified—Anthony died at age 86. She’d led the American women’s suffrage movement for much of her adult life.
As CNN reports, some contemporary scholars and politicians argue that Anthony wore her arrest as a badge of honor and wouldn’t have necessarily wanted to be pardoned.
Later in life, note Janet Adamy and Gordon Lubold for the Wall Street Journal, she described the arrest as the 'greatest judicial outrage history has ever recorded.'"
In 1872, Susan B. Anthony Was Arrested for Voting 'Unlawfully'
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Susan B. Anthony, the Suffragette Superhero.
"Susan B. Anthony was born into a community of abolitionist Quakers - fighting for civil rights was in her blood."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB9fApRcYFw
Images:
1. Photograph of Susan B. Anthony by Napoleon Sarony
2. Susan B Anthony 'Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place, think your best thoughts, speak your best word, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.'
3. Public relations portrait of Susan B. Anthony, circa 1855 engraving by G.E. Perine
4. Susan B Anthony 'Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the salve , so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman'
Biographies:
1. womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/susan-b-anthony
2. socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/people/anthony-susan-b
1. Background from {[https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/susan-b-anthony]}
Champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work, Susan Brownell Anthony became one of the most visible leaders of the women’s suffrage movement. Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she traveled around the country delivering speeches in favor of women's suffrage.
Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. Her father, Daniel, was a farmer and later a cotton mill owner and manager and was raised as a Quaker. Her mother, Lucy, came from a family that fought in the American Revolution and served in the Massachusetts state government. From an early age, Anthony was inspired by the Quaker belief that everyone was equal under God. That idea guided her throughout her life. She had seven brothers and sisters, many of whom became activists for justice and emancipation of slaves.
After many years of teaching, Anthony returned to her family who had moved to New York State. There she met William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass, who were friends of her father. Listening to them moved Susan to want to do more to help end slavery. She became an abolition activist, even though most people thought it was improper for women to give speeches in public. Anthony made many passionate speeches against slavery.
In 1848, a group of women held a convention at Seneca Falls, New York. It was the first Women’s Rights Convention in the United States and began the Suffrage movement. Her mother and sister attended the convention but Anthony did not. In 1851, Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The two women became good friends and worked together for over 50 years fighting for women’s rights. They traveled the country and Anthony gave speeches demanding that women be given the right to vote. At times, she risked being arrested for sharing her ideas in public.
Anthony was good at strategy. Her discipline, energy, and ability to organize made her a strong and successful leader. Anthony and Stanton co-founded the American Equal Rights Association. In 1868 they became editors of the Association’s newspaper, The Revolution, which helped to spread the ideas of equality and rights for women. Anthony began to lecture to raise money for publishing the newspaper and to support the suffrage movement. She became famous throughout the county. Many people admired her, yet others hated her ideas.
When Congress passed the 14th and 15th amendments which give voting rights to African American men, Anthony and Stanton were angry and opposed the legislation because it did not include the right to vote for women. Their belief led them to split from other suffragists. They thought the amendments should also have given women the right to vote. They formed the National Woman Suffrage Association, to push for a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.
In 1872, Anthony was arrested for voting. She was tried and fined $100 for her crime. This made many people angry and brought national attention to the suffrage movement. In 1876, she led a protest at the 1876 Centennial of our nation’s independence. She gave a speech—“Declaration of Rights”—written by Stanton and another suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage.
“Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.”
Anthony spent her life working for women’s rights. In 1888, she helped to merge the two largest suffrage associations into one, the National American Women’s Suffrage Association. She led the group until 1900. She traveled around the country giving speeches, gathering thousands of signatures on petitions, and lobbying Congress every year for women. Anthony died in 1906, 14 years before women were given the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920."
2. Background from {[https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/people/anthony-susan-b/]}
Susan B. Anthony by Catherine A. Paul
Susan Brownell Anthony was both February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts and died March 13, 1906 in Rochester New York (Harper, 1998). Anthony helped to wage the battle for suffrage across multiple arenas, including voting booths, religious institutions, workplaces, and homes, and at the intersection of many issues, including race, class, and temperance. After the Civil War, Anthony demanded women have a voice across multiple spheres and independence in their personal, economic, and political lives. Anthony believed that suffrage was the ultimate expression of women truly being citizens. The struggle for suffrage is depicted in her ambitious project, History of Woman Suffrage, which she authored with her best friend, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and fellow suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage (Ridarsky & Hewitt, 2012).
Susan B. Anthony was raised in the Quaker tradition and was a quick learner; she was able to read and write at the age of three. Her family moved from Massachusetts to Battenville, New York, where she attended a school established by her father. She finished her education at a boarding school near Philadelphia and then took a position at a Quaker seminary in New Rochelle, NY in 1839. Then, from 1846 to 1849 Anthony taught at an all-girls school in upstate New York. Upon finishing there, Anthony moved home with her family near Rochester, New York, where she met many famous abolitionists and formed close bonds with women reformers, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Antoinette Brown Blackwell (Harper, 1998).
After being denied the right to speak at a temperance meeting in Albany in 1852, Anthony organized and became the president of the Woman’s New York State Temperance Society. Soon, Anthony was regarded one of the most zealous advocates of temperance and women’s rights (McDavitt, 1944).
During the early months of the Civil War, Anthony organized the Women’s National Loyal League, which fought for emancipation. At the end of the war, she campaigned unsuccessfully for a change in the 14th Amendment, in hopes of allowing women of color the right to vote (McDavitt, 1944).
In 1868, Anthony and Stanton joined forces to create and edit The Revolution. That same year, Anthony organized and represented the Working Women’s Association of New York at the National Labor Union convention. In 1869, Anthony organized a woman suffrage convention in Washington, DC, and just 5 months later, she and Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). However, a faction of the NWSA broke off to join ranks with Lucy Stone’s more conservative American Woman Suffrage Association. Nevertheless, the NWSA remained a powerful voice (“Susan B. Anthony: American Suffragist,” n.d.).
In 1870, Anthony left The Revolution behind and tested the legality of the suffrage provision of the Fourteenth Amendment by voting in the 1872 presidential election. Anthony was arrested, convicted, and fined; however, she refused to pay the fine, and the case was dropped. Anthony took to traveling with Stanton to show support for women’s suffrage. In 1890, the individual, rival suffrage associations joined forces to make the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Stanton was president for two years, followed by Anthony. Anthony relied heavily on Carrie Chapman Catt at this time (“Susan B. Anthony: American Suffragist,” n.d.).
By the 1890s, the country began to recognize Anthony as a national hero (McDavitt, 1944). She visited the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 and the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland, Oregon in 1905. Furthermore, Anthony traveled internationally as the head of of the US delegation to the International Council of Women, which she helped to found, to London and Berlin (“Susan B. Anthony: American Suffragist,” n.d.).
In 1900, Anthony retired as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and she was succeeded by Catt. Anthony died in 1906, 14 years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment (“Susan B. Anthony: American Suffragist,” n.d.).
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Susan B. Anthony, the Suffragette Superhero.
"Susan B. Anthony was born into a community of abolitionist Quakers - fighting for civil rights was in her blood."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB9fApRcYFw
Images:
1. Photograph of Susan B. Anthony by Napoleon Sarony
2. Susan B Anthony 'Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place, think your best thoughts, speak your best word, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval.'
3. Public relations portrait of Susan B. Anthony, circa 1855 engraving by G.E. Perine
4. Susan B Anthony 'Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the salve , so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman'
Biographies:
1. womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/susan-b-anthony
2. socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/people/anthony-susan-b
1. Background from {[https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/susan-b-anthony]}
Champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work, Susan Brownell Anthony became one of the most visible leaders of the women’s suffrage movement. Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she traveled around the country delivering speeches in favor of women's suffrage.
Susan B. Anthony was born on February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts. Her father, Daniel, was a farmer and later a cotton mill owner and manager and was raised as a Quaker. Her mother, Lucy, came from a family that fought in the American Revolution and served in the Massachusetts state government. From an early age, Anthony was inspired by the Quaker belief that everyone was equal under God. That idea guided her throughout her life. She had seven brothers and sisters, many of whom became activists for justice and emancipation of slaves.
After many years of teaching, Anthony returned to her family who had moved to New York State. There she met William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass, who were friends of her father. Listening to them moved Susan to want to do more to help end slavery. She became an abolition activist, even though most people thought it was improper for women to give speeches in public. Anthony made many passionate speeches against slavery.
In 1848, a group of women held a convention at Seneca Falls, New York. It was the first Women’s Rights Convention in the United States and began the Suffrage movement. Her mother and sister attended the convention but Anthony did not. In 1851, Anthony met Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The two women became good friends and worked together for over 50 years fighting for women’s rights. They traveled the country and Anthony gave speeches demanding that women be given the right to vote. At times, she risked being arrested for sharing her ideas in public.
Anthony was good at strategy. Her discipline, energy, and ability to organize made her a strong and successful leader. Anthony and Stanton co-founded the American Equal Rights Association. In 1868 they became editors of the Association’s newspaper, The Revolution, which helped to spread the ideas of equality and rights for women. Anthony began to lecture to raise money for publishing the newspaper and to support the suffrage movement. She became famous throughout the county. Many people admired her, yet others hated her ideas.
When Congress passed the 14th and 15th amendments which give voting rights to African American men, Anthony and Stanton were angry and opposed the legislation because it did not include the right to vote for women. Their belief led them to split from other suffragists. They thought the amendments should also have given women the right to vote. They formed the National Woman Suffrage Association, to push for a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote.
In 1872, Anthony was arrested for voting. She was tried and fined $100 for her crime. This made many people angry and brought national attention to the suffrage movement. In 1876, she led a protest at the 1876 Centennial of our nation’s independence. She gave a speech—“Declaration of Rights”—written by Stanton and another suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage.
“Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.”
Anthony spent her life working for women’s rights. In 1888, she helped to merge the two largest suffrage associations into one, the National American Women’s Suffrage Association. She led the group until 1900. She traveled around the country giving speeches, gathering thousands of signatures on petitions, and lobbying Congress every year for women. Anthony died in 1906, 14 years before women were given the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920."
2. Background from {[https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/people/anthony-susan-b/]}
Susan B. Anthony by Catherine A. Paul
Susan Brownell Anthony was both February 15, 1820 in Adams, Massachusetts and died March 13, 1906 in Rochester New York (Harper, 1998). Anthony helped to wage the battle for suffrage across multiple arenas, including voting booths, religious institutions, workplaces, and homes, and at the intersection of many issues, including race, class, and temperance. After the Civil War, Anthony demanded women have a voice across multiple spheres and independence in their personal, economic, and political lives. Anthony believed that suffrage was the ultimate expression of women truly being citizens. The struggle for suffrage is depicted in her ambitious project, History of Woman Suffrage, which she authored with her best friend, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and fellow suffragist, Matilda Joslyn Gage (Ridarsky & Hewitt, 2012).
Susan B. Anthony was raised in the Quaker tradition and was a quick learner; she was able to read and write at the age of three. Her family moved from Massachusetts to Battenville, New York, where she attended a school established by her father. She finished her education at a boarding school near Philadelphia and then took a position at a Quaker seminary in New Rochelle, NY in 1839. Then, from 1846 to 1849 Anthony taught at an all-girls school in upstate New York. Upon finishing there, Anthony moved home with her family near Rochester, New York, where she met many famous abolitionists and formed close bonds with women reformers, such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Antoinette Brown Blackwell (Harper, 1998).
After being denied the right to speak at a temperance meeting in Albany in 1852, Anthony organized and became the president of the Woman’s New York State Temperance Society. Soon, Anthony was regarded one of the most zealous advocates of temperance and women’s rights (McDavitt, 1944).
During the early months of the Civil War, Anthony organized the Women’s National Loyal League, which fought for emancipation. At the end of the war, she campaigned unsuccessfully for a change in the 14th Amendment, in hopes of allowing women of color the right to vote (McDavitt, 1944).
In 1868, Anthony and Stanton joined forces to create and edit The Revolution. That same year, Anthony organized and represented the Working Women’s Association of New York at the National Labor Union convention. In 1869, Anthony organized a woman suffrage convention in Washington, DC, and just 5 months later, she and Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). However, a faction of the NWSA broke off to join ranks with Lucy Stone’s more conservative American Woman Suffrage Association. Nevertheless, the NWSA remained a powerful voice (“Susan B. Anthony: American Suffragist,” n.d.).
In 1870, Anthony left The Revolution behind and tested the legality of the suffrage provision of the Fourteenth Amendment by voting in the 1872 presidential election. Anthony was arrested, convicted, and fined; however, she refused to pay the fine, and the case was dropped. Anthony took to traveling with Stanton to show support for women’s suffrage. In 1890, the individual, rival suffrage associations joined forces to make the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Stanton was president for two years, followed by Anthony. Anthony relied heavily on Carrie Chapman Catt at this time (“Susan B. Anthony: American Suffragist,” n.d.).
By the 1890s, the country began to recognize Anthony as a national hero (McDavitt, 1944). She visited the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 and the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland, Oregon in 1905. Furthermore, Anthony traveled internationally as the head of of the US delegation to the International Council of Women, which she helped to found, to London and Berlin (“Susan B. Anthony: American Suffragist,” n.d.).
In 1900, Anthony retired as president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and she was succeeded by Catt. Anthony died in 1906, 14 years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment (“Susan B. Anthony: American Suffragist,” n.d.).
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Images:
1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (seated) with Susan B. Anthony (standing)
2. Susan B Anthony late in her life
3. Letter to the United States Congress from Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and others in support of women’s suffrage, 1871
Biographies
1. socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/people/anthony-susan-b/
2.
1. Background from {[https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/people/anthony-susan-b/]}
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
Social Reformer, Women’s Rights Activist
Born into a Quaker family, Susan Brownell Anthony’s lifelong crusade for social justice as an abolitionist, temperance campaigner, and suffragist was guided by her belief in the equality of all under God. Anthony committed herself to activism at an early age, first collecting anti-slavery petitions at the age of sixteen, and drew inspiration from abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass, whom she met at antislavery gatherings at her family’s farm near Rochester, New York. At Seneca Falls in 1851, Anthony was introduced to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, kicking off a fifty-year partnership as two of the most prominent leaders of the American women’s suffrage movement. Anthony proved to be a gifted orator and traveled the country to give passionate speeches and campaign for women’s property rights and suffrage, often in the face of fierce opposition. Anthony and Stanton cofounded the American Equal Rights Association in 1866 and later created the association’s weekly newspaper The Revolution, which bore the motto “Men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.” Anthony and Stanton responded to a schism in the suffrage movement prompted by disagreement over the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, granting voting rights to African-American men by forming the National Woman Suffrage Association, focused solely on securing a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. Anthony would die 14 years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. In 1872, she was arrested and fined $100 for voting, and, on the occasion of the U.S. centennial in 1876, interrupted the official ceremonies to deliver a fiery “Declaration of Rights of Women.” In 1979, the U.S. Mint issued the Susan B. Anthony dollar, the first U.S coin to depict a female citizen.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PIWr17uwIk
Images:
1. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (seated) with Susan B. Anthony (standing)
2. Susan B Anthony late in her life
3. Letter to the United States Congress from Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and others in support of women’s suffrage, 1871
Biographies
1. socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/people/anthony-susan-b/
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1. Background from {[https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/people/anthony-susan-b/]}
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
Social Reformer, Women’s Rights Activist
Born into a Quaker family, Susan Brownell Anthony’s lifelong crusade for social justice as an abolitionist, temperance campaigner, and suffragist was guided by her belief in the equality of all under God. Anthony committed herself to activism at an early age, first collecting anti-slavery petitions at the age of sixteen, and drew inspiration from abolitionists William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass, whom she met at antislavery gatherings at her family’s farm near Rochester, New York. At Seneca Falls in 1851, Anthony was introduced to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, kicking off a fifty-year partnership as two of the most prominent leaders of the American women’s suffrage movement. Anthony proved to be a gifted orator and traveled the country to give passionate speeches and campaign for women’s property rights and suffrage, often in the face of fierce opposition. Anthony and Stanton cofounded the American Equal Rights Association in 1866 and later created the association’s weekly newspaper The Revolution, which bore the motto “Men, their rights and nothing more: women, their rights and nothing less.” Anthony and Stanton responded to a schism in the suffrage movement prompted by disagreement over the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, granting voting rights to African-American men by forming the National Woman Suffrage Association, focused solely on securing a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote. Anthony would die 14 years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment. In 1872, she was arrested and fined $100 for voting, and, on the occasion of the U.S. centennial in 1876, interrupted the official ceremonies to deliver a fiery “Declaration of Rights of Women.” In 1979, the U.S. Mint issued the Susan B. Anthony dollar, the first U.S coin to depict a female citizen.
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