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One hundred years to the day after the 19th Amendment was ratified, President Trump pardoned one of the movement's key figures.
In a White House press event, The President announced that he was going to pardon Susan B. Anthony. Anthony in 1873 was found guilty by an all-male jury in a Canandaigua, New York, courtroom of illegally voting in the 1872 presidential election.
In 1869, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded the National Women's Suffrage Association. Before her retirement in 1900, she was asked if women would be given the right to vote in her lifetime. Anthony replied, "It will come, but I shall not see it... is is inevitable. We can no more deny forever the right of self-government to one-half of our people... but come it will, and I believe within a generation."
Stanton passed away in 1906, fourteen years before the 19th Amendment was passed.
Anthony was arrested for illegally voting in the 1872 presidential election at her home in Rochester, New York. Fourteen other women were also arrested, but only Anthony’s action was presented as evidence. She was charged a fine of $100, which she refused to pay — and never did.
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