The Trial of Susan B. Anthony

On January 24, 1873, Susan B Anthony was indicted by a grand jury for voting knowingly, wrongfully, and unlawfully...the said Susan B Anthony being then and there a person of the female sex. The subsequent trial, in which Anthony was convicted of breaking the law by casting a vote, became one of the most famous trials of the nineteenth century. No musty historical document, The Trial of Susan B Anthony is alive with the drama of an exciting time, when the hard-fought gains that women enjoy today still hung in the balance.