Title:
The woman who dared to vote : the trial of Susan B. Anthony / N.E.H. Hull.
Author:
Hull, N. E. H., 1949-
Publication Information:
Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, ©2012.
Call Number:
KF223 .A58 H85 2012
Abstract:
Just as the polls opened on November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony arrived and filled out her "ticket" for the various candidates. But a poll watcher objected, claiming her action violated the laws of New York and the state constitution. Anthony protested that as a citizen of the United States and the state of New York she was entitled to vote under the Fourteenth Amendment. The poll watchers gave in and allowed Anthony to deposit her ballots. Anthony was arrested, charged with a federal crime, and tried in court. The author here provides the first book-length engagement with the legal dimensions of that narrative and, in the process, illuminates the laws, politics, and personalities at the heart of the trial and its outcome.
Electronic Access:
Book review (H-Net) http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=37007
ISBN:
9780700618484
9780700618491
Series:
Landmark law cases & American society
Landmark law cases & American society.
Physical Description:
xxiii, 236 pages ; 22 cm
Contents:
"There is no time now to indulge in personal enmity" : January 1873-May 1873 -- "On the part of the government, there is no question" : June 17-18, 1873 -- "Had the defendant, being a female, the right to vote?" : June 18-19, 1873 -- "Selfish male tyranny" : June 20, 1873-March 29, 1875 -- Postscript : to the Nineteenth Amendment.
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