Susan B. Anthony Museum Rejects Donald Trump’s Pardon Of Namesake Women’s Rights Activist
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deadline.comTed Johnson After President Donald Trump announced that he was pardoning Susan B. Anthony, a move tied to the centennial of women’s suffrage, he got a rebuke from an unexpected source: The museum named in her honor.The National Susan B.
Anthony Museum & House declined his pardon, for a 1873 conviction for voting illegally the year before, in a statement that took indirect aim at present-day restrictions on voting rights.
The president issued the clemency on Tuesday.In a statement, the museum’s president and CEO, Deborah L. Hughes, said, “Anthony wrote in her diary in 1873 that her trial for voting was ‘The greatest outrage History ever witnessed.” She was not allowed to speak as a witness in her own defense, because she was a woman.
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