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Political cartoon from "The American Past" by Roger Butterfield, Simon and Schuster, Inc. publishers,
&i<5& ^HE was sma^ an(^ slender and very handsome in her
new £^M blue gown as she stepped onto the roughhewn platform. Above her, flags snapped against the summer sky. Before her, the lady delegates of the Equal Rights Party stood up and cheered.
Belva Anne Lockwood accepted their cheers, and their nomination, to become in 1884 the woman who ran for the Presidency of the United States.
A gajlant choice she was, too. Defying massive prejudice, she had fought for and won a college education, a law degree — the first ever given an American woman, and, finally, the right to plead cases before the Supreme Court. (Where, among other triumphs, she won a $5,000,000 settlement for the Cherokee Indians.)
§he didn't expect to be President; that wasn't her point. She would run to make America conscious of women's right to political equality. And run she did. Ridiculed in the press, hooted on the street, even denounced by fellow-suffragist Susan Anthony, she nevertheless received 4,159 popular ballots from six states.
More important of course, she dramatized, as no one else had, women's battle for the right to vote.
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