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United States v. Susan B. Anthony was the criminal trial of Susan B. Anthony in a U.S. federal court in 1873. The defendant was a leader of the women's suffrage movement who was arrested for voting in Rochester, New York in the 1872 elections in violation of state laws that allowed only men to vote.
- June 17, 1873
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York and the U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of New York
- United States v. Susan B. Anthony
- Justice Ward Hunt
Susan Anthony Trial (1873) More than any other woman of her generation, Susan B. Anthony saw that all of the legal disabilities faced by American women owed their existence to the simple fact that women lacked the vote. When Anthony, at age 32, attended her first woman's rights convention in Syracuse in 1852, she declared "that the right which ...
The trial and conviction of the well-known leader of the woman suffrage movement dramatically revealed the denial of women’s voting rights at the time that the nation was debating the expansion of political rights and constitutional protections of those rights in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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U.S. v. Susan B. Anthony: The Fight for Women's Suffrage When the leading advocate of woman suffrage votes in a federal election, a federal court must decide what political rights are protected by the Constitution.
Champion of temperance, abolition, the rights of labor, and equal pay for equal work, Susan Brownell Anthony became one of the most visible leaders of the women’s suffrage movement. Along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, she traveled around the country delivering speeches in favor of women's suffrage.
INTRODUCTION. Susan B. Anthony and other suffragists cast votes in the 1872 presidential election as a strategy to confront what had become male-only electoral privileges across most elections in the United States.
Mar 25, 2019 · At her trial in Canandaigua, New York on June 17, 1873, Anthony was found guilty by a jury of twelve men and fined $100. She challenged the judge to hold her in custody until she paid the fine; he never did knowing this would enable her to take her case to the Supreme Court. Anthony never paid the fine. (NPS)
