A mother watching her daughter sign the letter next to the grave of Susan B Anthony. Photo: Courtesy of the City of Rochester.
US mayor celebrates campaigning Friend
Loveday Warren writes to Susan B Anthony
An American Friend who campaigned for women’s suffrage and was active in the anti-slavery movement has been recognised for her witness.
Lovely Warren, the mayor of Rochester, New York, has taken the unusual step of writing a thank-you letter to Susan B. Anthony, who died in 1906.
The letter has been placed next to Anthony’s grave at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester. It thanks her for ‘paving the way’. Warren also wrote: ‘We thought you might like to know that for the first time in history, a woman is running for president representing a major party.’ Susan B Anthony was arrested in 1872 for casting her vote illegally.
Warren, the first woman mayor of Rochester, has invited the public to co-sign the letter.
