https://www.americanleviathan.com/p/guilty-of-voting

Excellent story of voting rights and the constitution, and how change comes about

On November 1, 1872, Susan B. Anthony walked into a barbershop in Rochester, New York, where voters in the Eighth Ward were being registered and asked to be put on the rolls.

The inspectors said no.

Anthony then read them the Fourteenth Amendment: all persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens, and no state shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens. Voting, she argued, was one of those privileges. She told them that if they refused, she would personally sue them.

They registered her. Four days later she voted, along with fourteen other Rochester women. That evening she wrote to a friend, delighted, that she had gone and done it and added that she’d voted a straight Republican ticket.