Hyde Park women vote in a municipal election.

[3/4, 3/7/1872] Forty-two Hyde Park women, led by Dr. Mehitable Sunderland and sisters Angelina Grimké and Sarah Grimké, carrying bouquets of flowers, and escorted by men, march through a snowstorm and cast their votes into special receptacle set up for them at the polling place in Methodist Hall. The first women to vote in the U.S., they are disappointed when their ballots are subsequently discarded. Susan B. Anthony leads a small group of women that attempts to vote in a presidential election on November 5, 1872. Women are allowed to vote in school committee elections in Massachusetts beginning in 1875.*