Voting Rights: A Retrospective

This exhibit chronicles the ebb and flow of voting rights in America, from the Founding Era to the current day.

Founding Era

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Voting Rights: A Retrospective

Founding Era
Founding Era
- Thomas Jefferson Gave the Constitution 19 Years. Look Where We Are Now.
  
  A meaningful new amendment hasn’t been passed in 50 years, and there is no prospect of reform anytime soon.
  
  by Jesse Wegman
- The Tyranny of the Minority, from Iowa Caucus to Electoral College
  
  The problem of minority rule isn’t Trumpian or temporary; it’s bipartisan and enduring.
  
  by Corey Robin
Reconstruction

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Women's Suffrage

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Civil Rights Movement

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Voting Rights Today

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