On Election Day 2024, thousands of women are paying tribute to the suffragist.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — After casting their ballots Tuesday, thousands of women are expected to visit the grave of one of the civil rights activists who made their vote possible.
Susan B. Anthony, one of history’s most famous suffragists, was arrested for illegally voting in the 1872 presidential election. At a two-day trial in Ontario County, New York, the judge directed the jury to find Anthony guilty without any deliberations.
“When Anthony refused to pay a $100 fine and court costs, the judge did not sentence her to prison time, which ended her chance of an appeal,” the National Park Service later wrote of the trial. “An appeal would have allowed the suffrage movement to take the question of women’s voting rights to the Supreme Court, but it was not to be.”
Anthony died in 1906, several years before the 19th Amendmentwas ratified in 1920. Nicknamed the “Anthony Amendment” in …