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Voting Rights: A Retrospective
Voting Rights: A Retrospective
Voting Rights: A Retrospective
This exhibit chronicles the ebb and flow of voting rights in America, from the Founding Era to the current day.
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Founding Era
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Reconstruction
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Women's Suffrage
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Civil Rights Movement
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Voting Rights: A Retrospective
Civil Rights Movement
Civil Rights Movement
Fifty Years After Bloody Sunday in Selma, Everything and Nothing Has Changed
Racism, segregation and inequality persist in this civil-rights battleground.
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Ari Berman
The Court & the Right to Vote: A Dissent
How the Supreme Court got it wrong.
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John Paul Stevens
The Selma March
On the trail to Montgomery.
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Renata Adler
50 Years After Bloody Sunday, Voting Rights Are Under Attack
The right to vote is under the greatest threat since the passage of the Voting Rights Act.
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Ari Berman
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Litigating the Line Between Past and Present
The Supreme Court is about to take up another blockbuster voting rights case. At its core is a struggle over the limits of history.
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Sara Mayeux
Fannie Lou Hamer's Dauntless Fight for Black Americans' Right to Vote
The activist did not learn about her right to vote until she was 44, but once she did, she vigorously fought for black voting rights
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Keisha N. Blain
The Strange Career of Voting Rights in Texas
Republicans in Texas, and indeed around the country, remain hell-bent on going back to the future.
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Derek C. Catsam
The Quiet Courage of Bob Moses
The late civil-rights leader understood that grassroots organizing was key to delivering political power to Black Americans in the South.
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William Sturkey
John Roberts’s Long Game
Is this the end of the Voting Rights Act?
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Linda Greenhouse
Why Fannie Lou Hamer Endures
She’s mostly remembered for one famous speech. Her actual legacy is far greater than that.
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Claire Bond Potter
How the Former Confederate Capital Slashed Black Voting Power, Overnight
Did Richmond violate the Voting Rights Act by adding thousands of White residents? The historic Supreme Court case foreshadowed today’s gerrymandering fights.
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Leila Barghouty
Let Justice Roll Down
"Those who expected a cheap victory in a climate of complacency were shocked into reality by Selma."
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Martin Luther King Jr.
SNCC Digital Gateway
A documentary website that tells the story of how young activists united with local people in the Deep South to build a grassroots movement that transformed the nation.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Still a Long Time Coming
Selma and the unfulfilled promise of civil rights.
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Elias Rodriques
The New Racism
A glimpse inside the Alabama State House suggests that the civil rights movement may have reached its end.
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Jason Zengerle
The Local Politics of Fannie Lou Hamer
By age 44, most people are figuring out how to live and die peacefully. That was certainly not the case with sharecropper and hero Fannie Lou Hamer.
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Stefan M. Bradley
Their Own Talking
Reconsidering Septima Clark’s life challenges many of our ideas about the Civil Rights Movement and women's roles in it.
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David P. Cline
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Septima Poinsette Clark
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Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
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Eugene P. Walker
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Katherine Mellon Charron
DeSantis, Trump and The History of Treating D.C. Residents Like They Aren’t Americans
A history as intertwined with race as with partisanship.
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Gillian Brockell
Fannie Lou Hamer and the Civil Rights Movement in Rural Mississippi
A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
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Jamie Lathan
Freedom Day, 1963: A Lost Interview with James Baldwin
After Baldwin’s biographer died, her niece opened an old desk drawer and discovered a trove of interview material, some of it unpublished.
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James Baldwin
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Fern Marja Eckman
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Leslie J. Freeman
Voting Rights Today
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