On this Date Nov. 5, 1872 Susan B. Anthony

NewHampster

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Mon Nov-05-07 05:03 PM
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On this Date Nov. 5, 1872 Susan B. Anthony

Edited on Mon Nov-05-07 05:08 PM by NewHampster

Nov. 5, 1872:
Susan B. Anthony goes to the polls in Rochester, NY, and votes in the presidential election. She is later arrested for voting and ordered to pay a $100 fine.

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sasquatch

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Mon Nov-05-07 05:04 PM
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1. If she would've done that in Florida she would've ben tased to death

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Ken Burch

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Mon Nov-05-07 05:07 PM
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2. ...Unless she'd voted for Bush, of course....

n/t.

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Hydra

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Mon Nov-05-07 05:09 PM
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3. And thus the "Old Maid"

Became one of the great public targets of smears.

Funny how things don't change.

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Art_from_Ark

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Tue Nov-06-07 02:40 AM
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8. I always wondered why the "Old Maid" cards of my youth

looked so much like Susie B.

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Quantess

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Wed Nov-07-07 12:15 AM
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10. Old maid?

Probably a lesbian.

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Hydra

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Wed Nov-07-07 11:17 AM
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11. She's a relative of mine

and they made a big deal that she wasn't married.

Who knows? She could have been a lesbian...or she could have just been fed up with the social caste system at the time. Either way, she was marked as an aberration.

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donsu

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Wed Nov-07-07 11:45 AM
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12. back then some women didn't want the drudge of marriage

women didn't last as long as today - they were worked to death and/or had pregnancys that caused death.

even when I was young (born in 1935) a girl that wasn't married straight out of highschool or at least engaged, was considered an old maid. some fathers were anxious to get daughters married and out of the house so they didn't have to spend money on them.

(my father said he'd give me money to run away and get married so he wouldn't have to pay out for a big wedding)

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Quantess

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Wed Nov-07-07 02:21 PM
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13. Really!

Your father sounds a little old fashioned.

I'd definitely be considered an old maid if were to go back in a time machine, and still be 37 and never married. I'm hetero.

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NewHampster

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Mon Nov-05-07 06:02 PM
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4. Goin home gotta kick good old Suzy

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David Zephyr

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Mon Nov-05-07 06:05 PM
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5. Susan B. Anthony to Judge: I'll never pay a single dime of your fine.

I don't know her exact quote, but when the all male jury as ordered by the male judge to fine her, the great Anthony spoke out that she wouldn't pay a cent of the fine for the rest of her life. She never did.

Susan B. Anthony is one of America's greatest. She was a life-long friend of Frederick Douglass, too.

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NewHampster

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Mon Nov-05-07 10:17 PM
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6. Love the quote and story

She was one of the greats.

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Hekate

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Mon Nov-05-07 11:06 PM
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7. Never, ever forget that men and women have bled and died for the right to vote

Nowadays it seems like far too many citizens scarcely notice that right is disappearing before their eyes.

Thanks for the reminder about Susan B. Anthony.

Hekate

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NewHampster

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Tue Nov-06-07 08:20 AM
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9. You're welcome

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