susan b anthony

started. Refusing to let Anthony testify, he ordered the jury to find her guilty!
             , then sentenced her to pay a $100 fine. She refused, and no further action was taken against her. Anthony continued to campaign for women's rights. Between 1881 and 1886, she and Stanton published three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage, a collection of writings about the movement's struggle. In 1890 they strengthened the suffrage cause by forming the larger National American Woman Suffrage Association . Through Anthony's determined work, many professional fields became open to women by the end of the nineteenth century. At the time of her death in 1906, however, only four states--Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, and Utah--had granted suffrage to women. But her crusade carried on, and in 1920 Congress adopted the Nineteenth Amendment, finally giving women throughout America the right to vote. "Americans in general remained hostile to feminism. Other reform movements could be embraced abstractly; they called on people to change the world. The women's rights
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