the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Washington DC,President Trump said he will pardon Susan B. Anthony, the leader of the women’s suffrage movement who was arrested for violating male-only voting laws in 1872, the pardon comes 100 years to the day after the 19th Amendment, which ensured women’s right to vote, was ratified.
Anthony, a strong anti-slavery pioneer who died in 1906, had been arrested in 1872 for violating laws that had permitted only men to vote in the presidential election. She was then indicted, tried and convicted for voting illegally and sentenced to pay a fine of $100 and court costs. Ever the dramatic flare, the historic New Yorker described her two-day trial in June 1873 as “the greatest judicial outrage history has ever recorded,” according to The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.
