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Fact Check: Is This an Image of Susan B. Anthony Being Beaten by Cops?

By Holmes Lybrand
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Fact Check: Is This an Image of Susan B. Anthony Being Beaten by Cops?

An old meme (and an older image) has started its election-season rebirth this week on Facebook.

The image, however, is not of Susan B. Anthony or from the 1800s. Instead, it was the Daily Mirror’s front page photograph on November 19, 1910, the day after Black Friday when roughly 300 English women, protesting for voting rights, marched to the House of Commons in London.

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