Donald Trump Pardons Susan B. Anthony 100 Years After 19th Amendment

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will pardon Susan B. Anthony, who was arrested in 1872 for voting in the presidential election when only men were legally allowed to vote.

The announcement came at a White House ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment to the constitution, which extended the right to vote to women. Anthony was fined $100 for breaking the law.

Anthony was a leader in the movement to grant women the right to vote, as well as an anti-slavery pioneer. She died 14 years before it became illegal to deny an American citizen the right to vote on account of his or her sex.

The suffrage movement resonated well beyond 1920 as many women in the United States were still unable to vote. Most Asian American women, for example, weren’t allowed to vote until the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act was passed.

Trump continues to tout the idea that there could be massive voter fraud if mail-in ballots are widely used for the Nov. 3 election.

On Monday, Trump said he would be pardoning a “very, very important” person. The president noted to reporters on Air Force One that the person in question wasn’t Edward Snowden or former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Two years ago, Trump granted a posthumous pardon to legendary boxer Jack Johnson. The first African American heavyweight boxing champion died in 1946, 33 years after he was convicted of taking his white girlfriend across state lines.