voting rights

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• SOURCE: National Archives News
  11/14/19
  

  NARA Holds Panel on How ‘Suffragents’ Helped Women Get the Vote

  by James Worsham

  Worsham summarizes the thoughts portrayed by panel on women suffragists and men who supported them with scholars like Johanna Newman, Brooke Kroeger, and Susan Ware.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/13/19
  

  The five ways Republicans will crack down on voting rights in 2020

  by Carol Anderson

  Given what’s at stake next year, the effort to prevent people voting will be fierce. We’ve been here before – and we can stop it.

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• 11/10/19
  

  The Electoral College: How the Founders Cheated You of Your Vote

  by Harlow Giles Unger

  Weeks of debate by America’s Founders failed to set any rules at the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia—a failure that led to “cheating” at the Electoral College ever since.

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• 11/3/19
  

  Elbridge Gerry’s Monster Salamander that Swallows Votes

  by Harlow Giles Unger

  As Americans prepare to vote in local and state elections on Election Day, tens of thousands--even millions--will find their votes chewed, swallowed, and discarded by a monstrous “salamander”—the two-hundred-year-old creation of Founding Father Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/17/19
  

  The 19th amendment was a crucial achievement. But it wasn’t enough to liberate women.

  by Holly Jackson

  It’s time to fight for the original and unfulfilled goals of the women’s movement.

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• SOURCE: Harvard Magazine
  Accessed 9/4/19
  

  The Life of Black Suffragist Adella Hunt Logan

  by Adele Logan Alexander

  The brief life of a rebellious black suffragist: 1863-1915.

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• SOURCE: Politico Magazine
  8/18/19
  

  How a Gerrymander Nearly Cost Us the Bill of Rights

  by Richard Labunski

  Gerrymandering very nearly cost us the Bill of Rights and could have plunged the country into chaos from which it would not have recovered.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/14/19
  

  What the French Revolution teaches us about the dangers of gerrymandering

  by Rebecca L. Spang

  Our institutions must remain representative and responsive.

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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.