I listened to a story on NPR the other day about Susan B. Anthony. For those of you who know her name only from the least used coin in US history, take the time to read a little about her or about women's suffrage. She worked for women's rights, campaigning for women to be granted the right to vote. She was arrested when she had registered to vote, then voted in an election.
The ballot was apparently sent to the head of the household, SB Anthony. They didn't realize that SB was female. When, twenty years later, the same mistake was make by those mailing out the ballots, she wrote them declining to repeat that experience. Susan B Anthony died in 1906, 14 years before the ratification of the 19th Amendment.A couple of months ago I heard a story about another important woman, Mercedes Anderegg, my grandmother. Grandma and Grampa got married in 1920 on election day. In the morning she went and voted for the first time in her life; in the afternoon she got married. Interesting the ways history intersects our lives.
(This picture is my Grandma, Mercedes Anderegg, by the way, not Susan B. Anthony!)
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