Idaho
Susan B toured Idaho in the 1880s - on horseback, people! - and western states crusader Abigail Scott Duniway was invited to the speak at the state's founding convention in 1889. Still, it took until 1896, 7 yrs after statehood, for ID to become 4th in the nation. #StateoftheWeek
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12/10/2019
I demanded that I should be arrested properly
After Susan B. Anthony voted in 1872, a deputy federal marshal came to her door and asked her to accompany him downtown. “What for?" she asked. "To arrest you," he said. "Is that the way you arrest men?" "No." "Then I demanded that I should be arrested properly.”
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06/10/2019
The New Departure - Susan B.
<span>In the Presidential election of 1872, Ulysses S Grant was challenged by Horace Greeley. Grant was corrupt and incompetent, and Greeley opposed suffrage. Women voters didn’t have much of a choice - which was appropriate, since there weren’t any women voters. <br /><br />Susan B Anthony was already famous when she & 14 other women successfully registered to vote in Rochester NY. At the polls on Nov 5 1872, their credentials were challenged. The state inspectors asked under oath if Anthony was a citizen, if she lived in the district, and <br /><br />...if she had accepted any bribe for her vote. She said no. They accepted her ballot. 12 days later she was under arrest. <a href="https://twitter.com/AnnDGordon" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@AnnDGordon</a> tells the whole story: <a href="https://www.fjc.gov/sites/default/files/trials/susanbanthony.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://t.co/ZyKi7qf5ot</a> They weren’t the only women who tried to vote. <br /><br />The New Departure was a direct action and litigation strategy: women would try to vote, be turned away, then sue the registrar. The goal was to get the Supreme Court to say the 14th & 15th Amendments defined voting as an inherent right of citizenship for all. #Suffrage100 <br /><br /></span>
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04/10/2019
Women went to jail for the vote, part I
Women went to jail for the vote at three significant periods in American history. In the modern civil rights movement, Fannie Lou Hamer, Diane Nash and Ella Baker designed strategies for which men got credit. In the last years before the 19th Amdt, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns led hundreds of women to prison, hunger strikes, and force-feeding. And from 1868-1873, at least 700 women voted or attempted to vote in local, state, and federal elections, and many were arrested - including Susan B Anthony. More tomorrow! Oct 04, 2019
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03/10/2019
Who was & wasn't there
We know Seneca Falls had a mixed-sex audience, which was still rare. Susan B Anthony wasn't there: she didn’t join the movement until a few years later. Frederick Douglass was the most famous person in attendance, and played a pivotal role. Stay tuned! #Suffrage100 #KnowYour19th
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20/09/2019
Women's Typographical Union 1
Women got the chance to learn typesetting when owners needed scabs. Augusta Lewis realized we'd do better unionized, and in 1868 she created Women's Typographical Union 1. It met @ the office of Susan B Anthony's newspaper Revolution. #Suffrage100 #KnowYour19 #Union
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06/09/2019
The Freeman
Mary Ann Shadd Cary edited The Freeman in Canada. She moved there in 1850s to protest Fugitive Slave Act. Post-Civil War she returned & entered Howard Law School at age 46, the only woman in her class. More ahead on her work w/Frederick Douglass, Susan B.
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05/09/2019
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Susan B on trial
Susan B Anthony voted 147 years ago today. For this she was arrested, and tried in federal court in Canandaigua NY the following June. She was represented by Henry Selden, a retired judge who laid out her case for why the 14th Amdt provided her the right to vote as a citizen.
Judge Ward Hunt was a recently-appointed Supreme Court justice riding circuit in the Northern District of NY. He refused to allow Anthony to testify in her own defense, and directed the jury to find her guilty. To Hunt’s regret, he then asked if she had anything to say.
Miss Anthony—I have many things to say; for in your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government... Judge—The Court cannot listen to a rehearsal of arguments the prisoner's counsel has already consumed 3 hours in presenting.
Miss Anthony— May it please your honor, I am not arguing the question, but simply stating the reasons why sentence cannot, in justice, be pronounced against me. - Your denial of my citizen's right to vote is the denial of my right of consent as one of the governed...
- the denial of my right of representation as one of the taxed, - the denial of my right to a trial by a jury of my peers as an offender against law, - therefore, the denial of my sacred rights to life, liberty, property and— Judge— The Court cannot allow the prisoner to go on.
Miss Anthony— But your honor will not deny me this one and only poor privilege of protest against this high-handed outrage upon my citizen's rights. May it please the Court to remember that since the day of my arrest last November, this is the first time that either myself or...
...any person of my disfranchised class has been allowed a word of defense before judge or jury— Judge Hunt— The prisoner must sit down—the Court cannot allow it. This goes on for a while. Anthony published the trial proceedings: read them https://t.co/5AqREGb213 #Suffrage100
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05/11/2019
<a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/97187514/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony on the charge of illegal voting at the Presidential election in Nov., 1872, and on the trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh and William B. Hall, the inspectors of elections by whom her vote was received.</a>