Civil Disobedience Susan B Anthony

Susan B. Anthony believed that women should have the same rights as men. She fought for this right in many different ways, but she is most famous for showing civil disobedience by voting illegally. Unfortunately, Anthony fought all her life for women’s rights, but her dreams were not fulfilled until 14 years after she died (“Susan” Bio). Anthony attended a women’s rights convention before she started campaigning for women’s rights (“Susan” Encyclopedia par. 2). Also before she started campaigning, Anthony worked at Canajoharie Academy in 1846. She taught there for two years. While she was there, Anthony campaigned that all colleges should open their doors to everybody, regardless of race or sex. Because of Anthony, women started attending
Civil disobedience is “the refusal to obey certain laws or governmental demands for the purpose of influencing legislation or government policy, characterized by the employment of such nonviolent techniques as boycotting, picketing, and nonpayment of taxes” (Civil Disobedience). On November 18, “a U.S. deputy marshal appeared on her doorstep with a warrant for her arrest.” The other women who illegally voted were also arrested. Anthony was the only one who had to go to court. She was delivered to trial for civil disobedience. Her trial, United States v. Susan B. Anthony, happened seven months after she was arrested. The judge of the trial was an acclaimed enemy of women’s suffrage. When the time of the trial came, the judge banned Anthony from testifying. He accounted her “incompetent.” At the end of the trial, the judge “ordered the jury to find Susan guilty.” Before the jurors answered, the judge declared that the trial was over. Anthony’s attorney demanded a new trial. “The motion was denied, and the defendant was ordered to pay a $100 fine.” Anthony never paid the $100 fine (“1st November” par.
Antigone says, “Creon buried our brother Eteocles with military honors, gave him a soldier’s funeral, and it was right that he should; but Polyneices, who fought as bravely and died as miserably,- they say that Creon has sworn no one shall bury him…” (Sophocles 750). Antigone believed that her brother needed to be buried with honors, and Anthony believed that women and men should be treated equally. She asks later in her speech, “Are women persons?” Then, she says that women are citizens, so no state has the right to tell women that they can or can not vote (Anthony par.