8-18-2020
((trump couldn't be more ignorant;
Susan B Anthony was an Icon of voting because of her stand for being arrested in 1872 after illegally casting her vote!!!
Her fine was never paid in defiance.
and the ignorant trump defaced her by pardoning her, what a stupid fuk; that's a slap on face of Susan B Anthony and what/how she stood for)))
President Donald Trump has said he will issue a posthumous pardon for women's voting rights pioneer Susan B Anthony.
Making the announcement on Tuesday - the centennial anniversary of the 19th amendment, which granted US women the right to vote - Mr Trump said: "She was never pardoned. What took so long?"
Anthony was arrested in 1872 after illegally casting her vote.
She was later convicted of illegal voting in her home state of New York by an all-male jury.
Anthony died 14 years before the 19th amendment was ratified on 18 August, 1920.
It did not take long for Mr Trump's pardon to spark controversy. Hours after the announcement, Kathy Hochul, New York's lieutenant governor, tweeted:
"As [the] highest ranking woman elected official in New York and on behalf of Susan B Anthony's legacy,
we demand Trump rescind his pardon.
"She was proud of her arrest to draw attention to the cause for women's rights, and never paid her fine. Let her rest in peace."
Who was Susan B Anthony?
Anthony was convicted in a highly-publicised trial of illegally voting as a women, and was fined $100 by the judge in her hometown of Rochester, New York.
In a speech to the court, she chastised the government for barring women from voting and vowed to never pay a penny of the fine.
Her arrest brought attention to the voting equality movement and helped launch her onto the national stage. She went on to merge the country's two largest suffragette groups and travelled the US giving speeches and holding rallies.
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