voting rights

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• SOURCE: NPR
  6/18/19
  

  NPR Identifies 4th Attacker In the Civil Rights-Era Cold Case of James Reeb's Murder

  A four-year NPR investigation, led by Alabama-based reporters Chip Brantley and Andrew Beck Grace, found an eyewitness to the attack who has never spoken publicly about what she saw. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Perspectives
  6/10/19
  

  Voter Restrictions Have Deep History in Texas

  by Laurie B. Green

  Texas’ speedy ratification of the 19th Amendment represents a beacon for women’s political power in the U.S., but a critical assessment of the process it took to win it tells us far more about today’s political atmosphere and cautions us to compare the marketing of voting rights laws with their actual implications.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  6/5/2019
  

  American Women Fought for Suffrage for 70 Years. It Took WWI to Finally Achieve It

  World War I helped women around the world get the vote.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/4/2019
  

  How racism almost killed women’s right to vote

  by Kimberly A. Hamlin

  Women’s suffrage required two constitutional amendments, not one.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  6/4/2019
  

  19th Amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote was passed 100 years ago today

  Since the 19th Amendment's passage, women have helped inaugurate a new era of American politics.

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• SOURCE: KSMU
  5/22/19
  

  Marking The Day The House Voted For Women's Suffrage

  NPR's Cokie Roberts answers questions about women's voting rights and history. 

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• 5/5/19
  

  A Tale of Two Suffragists: Hazel Hunkins and Maud Wood Park

  by Susan Ware

  Thousands of women took different paths and pursued multiple strategies to win the goal of securing the right to vote.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  4/7/19
  

  People Used to Hate the Electoral College for Very Different Reasons

  by Justin Fox

  A half-century ago, the House voted to replace the Electoral College with a direct vote and the Senate came close. The arguments made then are enlightening.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  4/9/19
  

  How Women Got the Vote Is a Far More Complex Story Than the History Textbooks Reveal

  An immersive story about the bold and diverse women who helped secure the right to vote is on view at the National Portrait Gallery.

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• SOURCE: New York Magazine
  3/21/19
  

  Democrats’ Voting-Rights Push Could Begin a Third Reconstruction

  by Ed Kilgore

  As in the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, one party is committed to the use of federal power to vindicate voting rights, and the other is opposed.

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• SOURCE: The Smithsonian
  3/19/19
  

  “Votes For Women," an Upcoming Exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery, Highlights the Bold Accomplishments of Women of Color

  by Kate C. Lemay and Martha S. Jones

  The exhibit delves into the complexities and biases of the nature of persistence.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  3/8/19
  

  How the Daughters and Granddaughters of Former Slaves Secured Voting Rights for All

  by Martha S. Jones

  Theirs was a unique brand of politics crafted at the crossroads of racism and sexism.   

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  3/4/19
  

  After 54 years, the fight for voting rights in Selma is ongoing, organizers say

  A Supreme Court decision in 2013, Shelby County v. Holder, rendered much of the Voting Rights Act ineffective. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/27/19
  

  ‘They killed a white woman’: Fifty-four years later, Leroy Moton looks back at the killing that changed the civil rights movement

  Leroy Moton was riding in a car with civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo when she was shot to death after the third Selma to Montgomery march, in 1965. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/31/19
  

  Voter suppression carries slavery's three-fifths clause into the present

  by Imani Perry

  The Georgia governor’s election was the latest example of how James Madison’s words continue to shape our views on race.

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• SOURCE: 50.50
  1/9/19
  

  Working-class women also made suffragette history

  A century after some UK women won the vote, most of the suffragette stories we hear still focus on the elite. But this was a diverse movement.

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• 7/29/18
  

  Black Bostonians in the 19th Century Thought the 14th Amendment Didn’t Do Enough to Protect Black Voting Rights

  by Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood

  They were correct.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  4-27-18
  

  Most people think ‘whiteness’ is innate. They’re wrong: It was created to keep black people from voting.

  by Katharine Gerbner

  When slaves got close to voting rights, slaveowners changed the rules of the game.

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• SOURCE: NC State University
  10-8-15
  

  NC student’s senior thesis selected as top paper sheds light on little-known victory over Jim Crow

  It’s a story pulled from today’s headlines: Black voters turn out on election day only to learn that their names have been stricken from the voter rolls. But this one has a happy ending.

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• African American Voters Need to Channel Their Power in State Elections

  by Rawn James, Jr.

  Last month Americans marked the sixty-fifth anniversary of President Harry S. Truman’s signing Executive Order 9981 to desegregate America’s armed forces. African Americans had fought in every American war, including the Revolutionary War, but had done so in segregated units, often relegated to menial labor tasks. By the time President Truman issued Executive Order 9981, eliminating segregation and racial discrimination in the armed forces had become the single most important national issue to African American voters. Their cause was national in both scope and purpose.