The Supreme Court later ruled in another case that the 14th Amendment did not give women the right to vote. Although some states, including New York, passed laws giving women the right to vote, nationally this would have to wait until the 1920 amendment. But Anthony did not have that long. In February 1906, two weeks before she died of pneumonia, she was invited to a suffrage convention in Baltimore. You must see that it does not stop.
Failure is impossible.
A version of this story appeared in Newsday on Feb. 13, 1992. It was updated for this section.