Politics

A thank-you note appeared at Susan B. Anthony’s grave after Hillary Clinton’s historic nomination

Anthony was born in Massachusetts and lobbied tirelessly for women’s suffrage.

Susan B. Anthony was born in 1820 in Adams. She devoted her life to the women’s suffrage movement and became president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Flickr / UNC Greensboro Special Collections

By Callie Ahlgrim

July 28, 2016

The day after Hillary Clinton was officially nominated as the Democratic candidate for president, a sign at Susan B. Anthony’s grave thanked her for her contribution in the fight for women’s suffrage.

Stop by #ROC‘s Mt. Hope Cemetery to sign Mayor Warren’s thank you letter to Susan B. Anthony. #womenshistory pic.twitter.com/ZQ6BGfXLPO

— City of Rochester NY (@CityRochesterNY) July 27, 2016

Anthony, who was born in Adams and dedicated her adulthood to fighting for women’s rights, illegally cast a vote in the presidential election of 1872. She was jailed (along with 14 other women) in Rochester, New York, where she is now buried. Forty-eight years later, the 19th Amendment, which declares that the right to vote will not be denied in the United States “on account of sex,” was passed.

“We thought you might like to know that for the first time in history, a woman is running for President representing a major party,” the sign reads. “Thank you for paving the way.”

The note is signed at the bottom by Lovely Warren, the first female mayor of Rochester.

Clinton will formally accept her nomination Thursday, on day four of the Democratic National Convention.