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Connecting Women
Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of women's suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change in the Constitution. Following in the footsteps of her older sister Susan, Mary S. Anthony fought and received equal pay as a teacher in the late 1850s.
Making it a family affair, 4 Anthony sisters as well as 11 other women registered and voted in the election of 1872 in Rochester, New York. All the women were arrested for "knowingly, wrongfully and unlawfully vot[ing] for a representative to the Congress of the United States," though only Susan B. Anthony was convicted. Fourteen years after her death, women finally gained the vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in 1920. |