India, Nov. 5 -- It was November 5, 1872. Over 150 years ago, women's rights activist Susan B Anthony walked into a polling station in the United States and did something women were not legally allowed to do at the time: vote. Her act of defiance would land her in court but also become a landmark moment in the fight for women's suffrage.

Weeks later, Anthony was arrested and put on trial. She was found guilty after the judge directed the jury to return a guilty verdict and was fined $100.

Anthony died in 1906, before women won the constitutional right to vote. Her legacy, though, lived on through the 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920. Popularly known as the 'Susan B. Anthony Amendment', it prohibited denying citizens the right to vote on...