On this day, the American social reformer and women’s rights activist, Susan Anthony, together with fourteen other women, convinced the election inspectors to allow them to vote in the presidential election. On 18th November Anthony was arrested and charged with illegally voting. In her trial the following year, the judge directed the jury to deliver a guilty verdict. When she was finally allowed to speak, Anthony protested at what she called “this high-handed outrage upon my citizen’s rights”, saying, “you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights, are all alike ignored.” Anthony refused to pay the fine imposed by the court and in 1878 arranged for Congress to be presented with an amendment giving women the right to vote which later became known colloquially as the Susan Anthony Amendment. It was eventually ratified as the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.
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