voting rights

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• SOURCE: Woodrow Wilson Center
  10/23/2020
  

  Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote (Virtual Event, 10/26)

  Speaker Ellen DuBois will be joined by panelists Kimberly A. Hamlin and Marcia Chatelain to discuss the history of Woman Suffrage for the Washington History Seminar, hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center and the National History Center. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/22/2020
  

  The Supreme Court Is Helping Republicans Rig Elections

  by Adam Serwer

  Historian Lawrence Goldstone supports the argument that today's Roberts Court is continuing the jurisprudence of the post-Reconstruction era by denying the racism of restrictions on voting even as nonwhite voters are disenfranchised. 

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• SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
  10/21/2020
  

  Disenfranchisement in Jails Weakens our Democracy

  by Charlotte Rosen

  Because the pretrial population is disproportionately non-White, this kind of “de facto disenfranchisement” constitutes an abhorrent form of racist voter suppression, despite rarely gaining the headlines and outrage that long voting lines do. 

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• SOURCE: PBS
  10/20/2020
  

  Frontline: Whose Vote Counts?

  Jelani Cobb investigates the Wisconsin primary election as a lens onto the ongoing struggle to protect voting rights. 

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• SOURCE: Democracy Now!
  10/20/2020
  

  “A Fire That Has Spread Across the Country”: Jelani Cobb on Voter Suppression in the 2020 Election

  A new Frontline documentary on Wisconsin's 2020 primary election illuminates the nature of current attacks on voting rights and showcases the national nature of the ongoing battle to secure the ballot. 

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• SOURCE: Merrittocracy with Keri Leigh Merritt
  10/19/2020
  

  Dr. Carol Anderson: The 2020 Election and Beyond (video)

  Historian Carol Anderson joins Merrittocracy host Keri Leigh Merritt to discus Trump, racism, and the state of democracy leading up to the 2020 election.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/21/2020
  

  Shouting Matches, Partisan Rallies, Guns at Polling Places: Tensions High at Early-Voting Sites

  Partisan supporters, most often those favoring Donald Trump, have engaged in noisy demonstrations near early voting sites. Local election officials must determine if these actions are technically in violation of laws shielding polling places from electioneering activity, and whether the goal is to intimidate potential voters.

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• SOURCE: WFSB TV
  10/17/2020
  

  Face the State: Professor Leah Wright RigeurDiscusses Voter Suppression (Video)

  Leah Wright Rigeur, Harry Truman Associate Professor of American History at Brandeis University discusses the state of voting rights in Connecticut and nationally. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  10/20/2020
  

  Republicans: The New Confederacy

  by David W. Blight

  "There is no Republican majority in America, except on election days. It all depends on who votes and who is allowed to vote."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/16/2020
  

  A Campaign of Voter Subtraction: Trump’s Republican Party Must Subtract Votes in Order to Survive

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  The greatest myth of the 2016 election is that the polls got the election wrong. What if the polls did not get it wrong? What if the Republican game of voter subtraction got it right?

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  10/15/2020
  

  Republican Voter Suppression Efforts were Banned for Decades. Here's what Changed

  by Kevin M. Kruse

  In 2020, as in 1981, the realities of voter fraud don't matter. Republicans are insisting that their very real efforts at voter intimidation are warranted because they insist that Democrats have done or will do or possibly might do something much worse. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  10/14/2020
  

  What Do We Do About Voter Intimidation?

  by Nicholas Grossman

  "Americans can vote for any candidate they want. But they should be able to do so absent intimidation, and every vote should count."  

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  10/12/2020
  

  How In-Person Voting Can Save America

  by Nils Gilman and Keri Leigh Merritt

  Americans need an actual plan, a strategy to ensure that their votes will count. The best way to accomplish this momentous task? Mask up, be safe and vote in-person, preferably early.

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• 10/18/2020
  

  "Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone and Every Close Eye Ain’t Shut": Black Georgians' Memories and Election Unease

  by Alicia K. Jackson

  The unspoken realities of past voter suppression resonate in the present experience of many Black Georgians.

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• 10/12/2020
  

  My Memories of Voter Suppression

  by Lawrence Wittner

  After witnessing firsthand the depth of struggle needed to secure the Voting Rights Act in 1965, the author says the 2013 Supreme Court decision to gut the VRA and subsequent acts by state governments to suppress the vote "betray the most basic principle of democracy."

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• SOURCE: Muster: Journal of the Civil War Era
  9/29/2020
  

  Black Political Activism and the Fight for Voting Rights in Missouri

  by Nick Sacco

  Let us remember that throughout most of our country’s history, a majority of U.S. citizens never possessed a right to have their voices heard at the ballot box.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/16/2020
  

  How the Black Vote Became a Monolith

  by Theodore R. Johnson

  Despite the political diversity within Black America, the political system's accommodation of bigotry and the political utility of appeals to white identity have pushed the overwhelming majority of Black voters to cast ballots for the same party. 

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• SOURCE: Brennan Center for Justice
  9/17/2020
  

  Online Discussion: The Fight To Vote Feat. Carol Anderson (9/24/2020)

  The Brennan Center for Justice, the NYU Brademas Center, and NYU Votes sponsor an online discussion of voting rights featuring Emory University Professor Carol Anderson and Brennan Center Senior Fellow Theodore R. Johnson. 

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• SOURCE: AzCentral
  9/13/2020
  

  Arizona has Suppressed Black, Latino and Native American Voters for More than a Century

  From its territorial days to the present, Arizona has a history of suppressing votes which came back with a vengeance after the 2013 Supreme Court decision crippled the Voting Rights Act. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at The Washington Post
  9/10/2020
  

  In 2020, Voting Rights are on the Ballot

  by Peniel Joseph

  Black citizenship remains the best yardstick to measure the nation’s democratic health, and even before the coronavirus pandemic, the Black vote in large parts of the country remained imperiled.