hundreds of lectures, often shut down by eggthrowing mobs. Knives and pistols were brandished, and benches thrown and broken.
In 1872 Anthony and fifteen other women were arrested for attempting to vote in the presidential election of Horace Greeley and Ulysses S. Grant. Anthony was not permitted to testify at her own trial and the judge instructed the jury to find her guilty. She never did pay the $ 100 fine.
Anthony died 14 years before the passage of the 19 th Amendment and had lamented:“ To think I have had 60 years of hard struggle for a little liberty, and then to die without it seems so cruel.”
Indiana women fought from the early days of the suffrage movement. Amanda Way, girded by the testimony of equality of her Quaker faith, organized a convention in Dublin, Indiana in October 1851. This led to the formation of the Indiana Woman’ s Rights Association, one of the nation’ s first statewide organizations advocating women’ s social, economic, and political rights. The first petition for women’ s voting rights in Indiana was presented to the state legislature in 1859.
Susan B. Anthony visited Indiana several times. In 1897, she addressed the General Assembly:“ I want the politicians of Indiana to see that there are women as well as men in this state, and they will never see it until they give them the right to vote. Make the brain under the bonnet count as much as the brain under the hat.”
To publicly highlight their cause, Indiana women commissioned a statue in 1911 of State Senator Robert Dale Owen, a supporter of universal suffrage and women’ s rights. Made by artist Frances Murphy Goodwin, it was presented to the legislature at the State Capitol Building.
In 1917 a chapter of the National Woman’ s Party, founded by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, was opened in Indiana. That same year a small victory was won by Indiana suffragists when the Indiana General Assembly passed a partial woman’ s suffrage law. Close to 40,000 Hoosier women registered to vote that summer. The partial suffrage law was struck down in October 1917 by the Indiana Supreme Court. Indiana suffragists collected over 700,000 signatures on a petition sent to Congress favoring the amendment.
The National American Woman Suffrage Association transitioned into the League of Women
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