![]() Ridarsky, Rochester City Historian, is a PhD candidate in history at the University of Rochester. The essays here chart the long career of Anthony in this rich historical context of women's activism and display the efforts of a wide variety of women, and the challenges they faced, in the continued struggle for equality.Ĭhristine L. Anthony and theStruggle for Equal Rights explores the diversity of women's activism in nineteenth-century American reform movements, focusing on how Anthony and other women reformers shaped those movements and our memories of them. In doing so she forged alliances with other activists to forward a broad social justice agenda, but she also faced opposition from these reformers on how best to achieve this goal. Anthony is best remembered for leading the campaign for women's suffrage, she worked in multiple movements for equality beyond women's right to vote, including antislavery, Native American rights, temperance, and labor reform. The 19th Amendment eventually passed in 1920, 14 years after Anthony’s death at 86.Explores the diversity of thought and action in women's involvement in 19th-century reform movements. She concluded her trial with a maxim she urged all women to hear: “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.” At the end of her two-day trial, which she called the “greatest judicial outrage history has ever recorded,” Anthony was ordered to pay a fine of $100 – of which she told the judge who sentenced her she’d “never pay a dollar,” according to Library of Congress archives. “Let her Rest in Peace, refused to submit to the men who convicted her. “She was proud of her arrest to draw attention to the cause for women’s rights, and never paid her fine,” Hochul tweeted Tuesday. Kathleen Hochul asked Trump to rescind the pardon “on behalf of Susan B. Some contemporary officials believe she wouldn’t have wanted a pardon. She called it “downright mockery” to speak of the liberties American women enjoyed at that time while they were “denied the use of the only means of securing them” by the government – in other words, women weren’t feeling very liberated when they couldn’t vote.īy all accounts, Anthony wore her acts of rebellion as badges of honor that furthered her goal of women’s suffrage. “It was we the people, not we the white, male citizens, nor yet we male citizens, but we the whole people, who formed this Union,” she said in her speech. Vintage photos show the unsung heroes of the US suffrage movement Ida Bell Wells-Barnett Courtesy National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution When he told her it wasn’t, she demanded that she “be arrested properly.”īefore her trial, Anthony traveled around 29 towns and gave her stump speech, “Is it a crime for a US citizen to vote?” “Is that the way you arrest men?” she asked. Gordon, a deputy federal marshal asked Anthony to “accompany him downtown” for her arrest. Over a week later, Anthony and 14 other women who voted with her in New York were arrested and charged with voting unlawfully.Īnthony refused to accept different treatment because of her gender. Her answers satisfied the official, so she was allowed to vote, according to the National Archives. An election official asked her if she was a US citizen, if she lived in the district she was voting in and whether she had accepted a bribe for her vote. Trump celebrates women's rights - and attacks Michelle Obama Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images North America/Getty Images
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