Though Anthony did not live to see women gain the right to vote, her work with Elizabeth Cady Stanton in drafting and introducing the 19th Amendment, which prohibited the denial of a US citizen to vote based on sex, laid the foundation for its ratification fourteen years after her death.<\/p>\n Anthony is buried in Mount Hope Cemetery<\/a>; during election season, people visit her gravesite and many place their \u201cI Voted\u201d stickers on her headstone. Her house on 17 Madison Street in the city of Rochester has been preserved and is now known as the Susan B. Anthony House and Museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n Today, the University is a\u00a0collector, curator, and steward of Anthony\u2019s legacy:<\/p>\n The University was founded in 1850 as an all-male institution. In the 1880s, women began to petition the University to open its doors to female students. Finally, in 1898 the board of trustees voted to allow women to enter the University if they defrayed expenses by raising $100,000 (approximately $2 million in today\u2019s money).<\/p>\n A committee of women led by Helen Barrett Montgomery raised $40,000 over the next two years. In June 1900, the board agreed to admit women students that September if the women could secure another $10,000. During the summer of 1900, the committee was able to raise another $2,000, but the day before the deadline they were still $8,000 short.<\/p>\n At this crucial point, Anthony took charge of collecting the remaining money. She solicited the first $2,000 from her sister Mary, the second from Sarah Willis, and the third from Rev. and Mrs. William Channing Gannett. Still short $2,000, Anthony pledged her life insurance policy, thus guaranteeing the admission of women to the University in the fall of 1900.<\/p>\n The 1866 Woman\u2019s Rights Convention was the first held since the beginning of the Civil War. The call to the convention reflects Stanton and Anthony\u2019s concern that the proposed fourteenth amendment would extend suffrage to black males only. In an enclosed note to Amy Post, Anthony writes: \u201cI hope you will be at the convention. We shall need every woman & man who really believes now is the hour for woman <\/b>to demand the ballot.<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n On November 1, 1872, Anthony, her three sisters, and ten other Rochester women registered to vote after persuading the election inspectors that the Fourteenth Amendment gave them that right. Four days later they cast their ballots, and on November 18, Anthony was arrested for voting illegally.<\/p>\n About voting in the election, Anthony wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n Rochester Nov. 12th 1872 My Dear young Friend Yes you shall have the Autograph of the first woman who legally registered and voted in the state of New York under the 14th Amendment, which lifts the franchise of the citizen above the power of the states to deny, as did the 13th freedom of the person. All persons are citizens\u2013and no state shall deny or abridge the citizen[\u2019s] rights\u2013Respectfully yours Susan B. Anthony<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Colorful](\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/inline-3344_SueB-MikeO.jpg\")
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