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Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom as a national movement began in 1872. Women were not prohibited from voting in the United Kingdom until the 1832 Reform Act and the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act.
Susan B. Anthony, on November 18, 1872.
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1873 she attempted to vote She voted illegally in 1872 in Rochester, New York.
Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom as a national movement began in 1872. Women were not prohibited from voting in the United Kingdom until the 1832 Reform Act and the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act.
Arrested for the crime of voting.
Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom as a national movement began in 1872. Women were not prohibited from voting in the United Kingdom until the 1832 Reform Act and the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act.
The Equal Rights Party, in 1872, selected Victoria Woodhull as their candidate to run for President of the US, even though women did not even have the right to vote yet. Fifteen hundred men and women nominated Woodhull by acclamation.
she was fined $100 ...
because she regestered to vote, and on election day she voted in Rochester, New York. Two weeks later she was arrested for "knowingly, wrongfully and unlawfully" voting for a representative to the Congress of the U.S.
There were actually two women's rights movements. One, called First Wave Feminism, began in 1848, when a group of women gathered for a conference at Seneca Falls NY; they wanted to work towards greater legal rights for women as well as gaining the vote (women's suffrage). The next women's rights movement, called Second Wave Feminism, began around 1963, with the publication of Betty Friedan's book "The Feminine Mystique" and continued with the founding of the National Organization for Women in 1966.
In 1872 and 1892 Victoria Chaflin Woodhull was a candidate for The Equal Rights Party in a number of States. She lived (1838-1927).