Of Men, For Men, By Men

[MerryBlooms]

From an account of the sentencing during the trial of United States v. Susan B. Anthony. After forming the National Woman Suffrage Association with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1869, Anthony went to the polls in November 1872 and was arrested a few weeks later for violating federal law. She held that the Fourteenth Amendment gave her, a U.S. citizen, the right to vote. The court disagreed, and Anthony was sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars; she declined to do so. Anthony died in 1906, fourteen years before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified.

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http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/foreigners/men-men-men

[MuseRider]

1. We (meaning ALL of us)

owe these women so much.

[MerryBlooms]

2. Yes, definitely. I'm so grateful for their incredible courage.