JUDGE HUNT-Madam, the Court will not order you stand committed
until the fine is paid.

Miss Anthony did not pay her fine and was never imprisoned. I
believe the fine stands against her to this day.

On the heels of this sensation came another of those dramatic
protests which until the very end she always combined with
political agitation. The nation was celebrating its first
centenary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence at
Independence Square, Philadelphia. After women had been refused
by all in authority a humble half moment in which to present to
the Centennial the Women's Declaration of Rights,

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Miss Anthony insisted on being heard. Immediately after the
Declaration of Independence had been read by a patriot, she led a
committee of women, who with platform tickets had slipped through
the military, straight down the center aisle of the platform to
address the chairman, who pale with fright and powerless to stop
the demonstration had to accept her document. Instantly the
platform, graced as it was by national dignitaries and crowned
heads, was astir. The women retired, distributing to the gasping
spectators copies of their Declaration. Miss Anthony had reminded
the nation of the hollowness of its celebration of an
independence that excluded women.

Susan B. Anthony's aim was the national enfranchisement of women.
As soon as she became convinced that the constitution would have