Susan B. Anthony

 

“The Woman Who Dared” cover illustration by Thomas Wust (of Susan B. Anthony) for The Daily Graphic, June 5, 1873 

 

Susan B. Anthony and other suffragists cast votes in the 1872 presidential election as a strategy to confront what had become male-only electoral privileges across most elections in the United States. They attempted to invoke the citizenship clause (“privileges or immunities”) and the equal…

On June 18, 1873, Justice Ward Hunt pronounced Susan B. Anthony guilty of illegal voting, and the next day he set her fine. Hunt’s opinion on the question of women’s right to vote was overshadowed by his decision to render a verdict without consulting the jury. In this editorial from a newspaper in…

Writing in the days between Susan B. Anthony’s arrest and her examination by the commissioner, this Rochester editor steered away from the topic of the legality of Anthony’s vote and directed his readers to the larger context of her mission, to a national debate among ministers, intellectuals, and…

<p><span class="deck">Her past was shady but her conscience was excellent, and all in all she played a big part in the emancipation of women</span></p>

<p>An interview with the famed suffragette, Alice Paul</p>

<p><span class="deck"> In forty years of scraping and scrapping for women’s rights, Abigail Scott Duniway never lost her nerve or wicked tongue</span> </p>

<p>Soujourner Truth's mission was “testifyin’ concerning the wickedness of this ‘ere people.”</p>

<p><span class="deck">For this crime, she was arrested, held, indicted, and put on trial. Judge Hunt presided.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Elizabeth Lady Stanton's sardonic and biting proto-feminist commentary on the <em>Bible</em> cost her the leadership of the suffragist movement.</span></p>