The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.

The fight to allow felons who are too poor to pay their court-ordered fines and fees continued Thursday in an Atlanta appellate court.

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will pardon Susan B. Anthony, a leader in the womens suffrage movement, who was arrested for voting in 1872 in violation of laws permitting only men to vote. Anthony is best known for her role in the movement to secure voting rights for women, but she also was a strong anti-slavery and voting rights pioneer. Trumps pardon comes 100 years after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which ensured women the right to vote. Trump has denied asking for the mail to be delayed even as he leveled fresh criticism on mail-in voting. Anthony was arrested for voting in her hometown of Rochester, New York, and convicted in a widely publicized trial.

Of the states yet to vote, Tennessee was the only one where ratification was considered possible under prevailing political conditions. At that time, women in more than half the states could vote in presidential elections. The attitude was, If you ratify the 19th Amendment, youre not a good son of the South,' Spruill said. 'These white radical women from outside are going to insist that Black women get the vote. The 19th Amendment was a starting point, wrote Sharon Harley, a professor of African American Studies at the University of Maryland.