Kamis, 07 April 2016

Susan B. Anthony: ‘It Was We, the People; Not We, the White Males’

On November 1, 1872, Susan B. Anthony entered a barbershop in Rochester, N.Y., that doubled as a voter registration office and insisted she had as much right to vote as any man. Startled officials allowed her to register after she threatened to sue them. Four days later she cast a ballot for Ulysses S. Grant …

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