thony to broadcast their views and inform the public of their ideas.10During the early 1870s, Anthony and Stanton founded an organization called the “New Departure” on the premise that the 14th and 15th Amendments guaranteed all citizens the right to vote regardless of gender.11 Anthony and at least 150 other women tested its constitutionality by casting ballots in the 1872 presidential election. Several weeks later, Anthony was arrested. The judge ordered the all-male jury to render a guilty verdict. In her comments to the court, Anthony exposed the trial for the mockery it was. They soon abandoned the New Departure in 1875 when the Supreme Court delivered the Minor v. Happersett verdict.12 This trial was about a woman named Virginia Minor who tried to register to vote and was and was not allowed by Happersett. The trial quickly grew and soon became a law suit against the 14 Amendment.During the mid 1880s, Stanton and Anthony worked to produce the first three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage, the story of the movement they created. In 1882 and again in 1886, Stanton traveled to England and Europe to visit two of her children and to investigate the possibility of an international suffrage movement. When Anthony joined her in 1883, they agreed to organize an international conference of women in 1888 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention. The International Council of Women proved to be the largest women’s convention of its time.13 At the 1892 National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA) convention, Stanton retired as president and delivered her “Solitude of Self” speech, the fullest expression of her feminist philosophy, which is that women deserve to have the same rights as all other citizens of the United States. In the 1890s, until Anthony retired as president in 1900, NAWSA concentrated on waging state suffrage campaigns, attempting to win the vot...
