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The trial of Susan B. Anthony : an illegal vote, a courtroom conviction and a step toward women's suffrage /
Defying state and federal law, Susan B. Anthony voted in the presidential election of ¡872, and was arrested and tried in a case presided over by a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Ward Hunt, who directed the jury to deliver a guilty verdict. Fined ¡00, Anthony defiantly told the judge she would never pa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2014]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Defying state and federal law, Susan B. Anthony voted in the presidential election of ¡872, and was arrested and tried in a case presided over by a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Ward Hunt, who directed the jury to deliver a guilty verdict. Fined ¡00, Anthony defiantly told the judge she would never pay--and never did. This is the story of the landmark trial that attracted worldwide attention and made Anthony into the iconic leader of the women's rights movement. "[A public argument with her friend, Frederick Douglass, led Susan B. Anthony to alter her strategy of seeking a broad range of rights for women and blacks and focus exclusively on winning the right to vote for women.]"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (245 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781476617572 1476617570 |