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The Forgotten First Voting Rights Act
How the defeat of the 1890 Lodge bill presaged today’s age of ballot-driven backlash.
by
Ed Burmila
via
The Forum
on
October 17, 2022
Echoes of 1891 in 2022
Using the congressional filibuster to prevent voting rights legislation isn't new. It has roots in the 19th century.
by
Daniel W. Crofts
via
Muster
on
January 25, 2022
What Made Gilded Age Politics So Acrimonious?
Fearful of increasing participation, elites of the era attempted to rein in democracy.
by
Chris Lehmann
via
The New Republic
on
June 21, 2021
Our 250-Year Fight for Multiracial Democracy
We say we’re for it. We’ve never truly had it. These next few years will determine its fate.
by
Matt Ford
via
The New Republic
on
May 17, 2021
The California Klan’s Anti-Asian Crusade
Whereas southern Klansmen assaulted Black Americans and their white allies, western vigilantes targeted those they deemed a greater threat: Chinese immigrants.
by
Kevin Waite
via
The Atlantic
on
April 6, 2021
In 1868, Black Suffrage Was on the Ballot
At the height of the Reconstruction, the pressing issue of the election was Black male suffrage.
by
Jordan Grant
via
Smithsonian
on
February 19, 2021
partner
Grant — Not Lincoln or Roosevelt — May Hold the Key to Biden’s Success
Biden needs to stare down White supremacy, which requires strenuous enforcement of the laws.
by
Judith Giesberg
via
Made by History
on
February 3, 2021
Black Political Activism and the Fight for Voting Rights in Missouri
Nick Sacco takes a moment to remember the 15th Amendment.
by
Nick Sacco
via
Muster
on
September 29, 2020
The Thorny Road to the 19th Amendment
A new book chronicles the twists and turns of the 75-year-path to securing the vote for women.
by
Ellen Carol DuBois
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Lila Thulin
via
Smithsonian
on
March 18, 2020
The Achievements, and Compromises, of Two Reconstruction-era Amendments
While they advanced African American rights, they had serious flaws, Eric Foner writes.
by
John Fabian Witt
via
Washington Post
on
October 31, 2019
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Voter Fraud Isn’t a Problem in America. Low Turnout Is.
For centuries, voter fraud has been used as an excuse to restrict the vote.
by
Allan J. Lichtman
via
Made by History
on
October 22, 2018
Welcome To Jim Crow 2.0
Georgia GOP candidate Brian Kemp is using a tried-and-tested formula designed to erode and corrode American democracy.
by
Carol Anderson
via
HuffPost
on
October 19, 2018
Today’s Voter Suppression Tactics Have A 150 Year History
Rebels in the post-Civil War South perfected the art of excluding voters, but it was yankees in the North who developed the script.
by
Gregory P. Downs
via
Talking Points Memo
on
July 26, 2018
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Why Felon Disenfranchisement Doesn't Violate the Constitution
The justification can be found in an obscure section of the Fourteenth Amendment.
by
Sara Mayeux
on
December 21, 2017
The Racist Roots of Virginia's Felon Disenfranchisement
A century ago, the commonwealth's leaders weren't circumspect about their motives.
by
Matt Ford
via
The Atlantic
on
April 27, 2016
The Price of Union
The undefeatable South.
by
Nicholas Lemann
via
The New Yorker
on
November 2, 2015
Killing Reconstruction
During Reconstruction, elites used racist appeals to silence calls for redistribution and worker empowerment.
by
Heather Cox Richardson
via
Jacobin
on
August 19, 2015
The Killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson
How a post-Civil War massacre impacted racial justice in America.
by
Debo Adegbile
via
The Marshall Project
on
February 27, 2015
The Racial History Of The 'Grandfather Clause'
Companies and individuals are considered grandfathered and exempt from new sets of regulations all the time. But the term and the concept dates to a darker era.
by
Alan Greenblatt
via
NPR
on
October 22, 2013
Lydia Maria Child and the Vexed Role of the Woman Abolitionist
Taking up arms against slavery, the famous novelist foreshadowed the vexed role of the white woman activist today.
by
Lydia Moland
via
Aeon
on
March 27, 2023
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