Today, President Trump signed a pardon for women’s suffrage icon Susan B. Anthony, who was arrested in 1872 for casting a ballot when women could not vote
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a pardon for women’s suffrage icon Susan B. Anthony, who was arrested in 1872 for casting a ballot when women could not vote.
Anthony was one of the leading figures of the movement to grant women the right to vote in the United States. In 1872,Anthony was arrested, found guilty by an all-male jury and ordered to pay a fine of $100 for violating the law. The voting rights activist never paid her fine. When women won the right to vote in 1920 after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, Anthony had been dead for over a decade. But her crucial contributions to the early days of the suffrage movement are hailed with paving the way for the expansion of the right to vote.
After the signing ceremony, the event quickly turned political. The president continued his attacks on voting by mail when responding to questions from the press.
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