Anthony, one of the leaders of the American women's suffrage movement, voted for President on November 5, 1872. Laws prohibited from women from voting in federal elections at that stage. Anthony was fined and told not to repeat her "mistake."

It wasn't just Anthony. Another 14 women cast their votes for President that day and were similarly punished.

Anthony was one of the guiding lights of the movement that culminated in the passage of the 19th Amendment. That Amendment came in 1920, 14 years after Anthony had died. Anthony, however, is remembered.

She refused to pay the fine. That was just one of many acts of civil disobedience practiced by Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott and others in the campaign to get the United States to grant women the vote.