****Women Inspiring Innovation through Imagination****
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QUIZ: What leading suffragist was arrested and convicted of attempting to vote in the 1872 election?
ANSWER: Susan B. Anthony The sentence was a $100 fine, but not imprisonment; true to her word in court ("I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty"), she never paid the fine for the rest of her life, and an embarrassed U.S. Government took no collection action against her. After her trial Anthony petitioned the US Congress to remove the fine in January 1874.
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