| With the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment in 1868, and its plain language implication that women, as citizens, had the right to vote, master strategist Susan B. Anthony decided to test the Constitution. She, her sister Mary, and fourteen other Rochester women registered, and then voted in the 1872 federal election, resulting in Anthony’s arrest, trial and conviction. The registrars and elections inspectors, the women who supported her by voting, the judge who issued the warrant, the arresting deputy U.S. marshal, and her attorneys are all permanent residents of Mount Hope Cemetery. Front page news across the country, this real-life Rochester drama gave Susan B. Anthony the deserved reputation as the most effective advocate and leader of the woman suffrage movement.
About the Presenter:
Dennis Carr is a founding member, past president and current vice-president of the Friends of Mount Hope Cemetery. He is the Senior Tour Guide at Mount Hope, with 2020 marking his 42nd year leading tours of Mount Hope Cemetery. Dennis is also the Answer Desk and Interlibrary Loan Specialist at the Edward G. Miner Library at the University of Rochester Medical Center, assisting students, researchers, clinical staff and faculty. He is a life-long scholar of the American cemetery.
This program is sponsored by the RRLC Library Assistants Group.
Free to RRLC & ESLN Members. This webinar will be held on Zoom Webinar; registration is required.
All attendees will receive a certificate of attendance for one hour of CE credit.
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