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Voters casting ballots in 2008.

How Letting Felons Vote Is Changing Virginia

Governor McAuliffe has embarked on a campaign to grant clemency more often, and to restore the civil rights of convicted felons.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on January 8, 2018
Whites at a Trump campaign rally.

Does the White Working Class Really Vote Against Its Own Interests?

Trump has revived an age-old debate about why some people choose race over class—and how far they will go to protect the system.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on December 31, 2017
A prison cell with a television tuned to election coverage.
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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

How the Kim Kardashians of Yesteryear Helped Women Get the Vote

Now all but forgotten, a group of New York socialites was instrumental to the success of the suffrage movement.
by Johanna Neuman, Helaine Olen via The Atlantic on December 12, 2017
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Voting Rights: A Retrospective

Voting, a right not initially enshrined in the Constitution, has been secured, revoked, and contested since the nation's founding era.
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"What is Sport to You is Death to Us."

In 1867, African-Americans in Virginia stood up for their new political rights in the face of threats from their white neighbors.
by Ed Ayers on October 31, 2017

History Frowns on Partisan Gerrymandering

On the eve of a major redistricting case at the Supreme Court, a look back at what the nation's founders would have thought.
by Michael Waldman, Cliff Sloan via Washington Post on October 1, 2017
Suffragists picketing in front of the White House.

Women's Suffrage @100

We date the expansion of voting rights to women in 1920, but the real story is a lot more complex.
by Linda Gordon via Public Books on September 22, 2017
Lithograph of the Reconstruction-era Black Senators and Congressmen.

How About Erecting Monuments to the Heroes of Reconstruction?

Americans should build this pivotal post–Civil War era into the new politics of historical memory.
by Richard Valelly via The American Prospect on August 23, 2017
Allegorical lithograph entitled "Reconstruction," by J. L. Giles in 1867.
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Why the Second American Revolution Deserves as Much Attention as the First

The first revolution articulated American ideals. The second enacted them.
by Gregory P. Downs via Made By History on July 19, 2017
Reconstruction era political cartoon.

The Political Cartoon That Explains the Battle Over Reconstruction

Take a deep dive into this drawing by famed illustrator Thomas Nast.
by Lorraine Boissoneault via Smithsonian Magazine on March 2, 2017

Slavery, Democracy, and the Racialized Roots of the Electoral College

The Electoral College was created to help white Southerners maintain their disproportionate influence in national governance.
by Christopher F. Petrella via Black Perspectives on November 14, 2016

Why Did White Workers Leave the Democratic Party?

Historian Judith Stein debunks liberal myths about racism, the New Deal, and why the Democrats moved right.
by Judith Stein, Connor Kilpatrick via Jacobin on September 6, 2016
An African American group at the county convention of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party in 1964.

Fannie Lou Hamer and the Civil Rights Movement in Rural Mississippi

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Jamie Lathan via Digital Public Library of America on April 7, 2016

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
John Roberts in DC with the media taking photos of him walking.

Inside John Roberts’ Decades-Long Crusade Against the Voting Rights Act

Roberts rose from Rehnquist’s clerk to Chief Justice, leading efforts to weaken the Voting Rights Act and redefine voting protections.
by Ari Berman via Politico Magazine on August 10, 2015

How the 2000 Election in Florida Led to a New Wave of Voter Disenfranchisement

A botched voter purge prevented thousands from voting—and empowered a new generation of voting-rights critics.
by Ari Berman via The Nation on July 28, 2015
Photo of Jimmy Lee Jackson.

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 New Racism

A glimpse inside the Alabama State House suggests that the civil rights movement may have reached its end.
by Jason Zengerle via The New Republic on August 10, 2014
Voters at the voting booths in 1945.

Felon Disfranchisement Preserves Slavery's Legacy

Nearly six million Americans are prohibited from voting in the United States today due to felony convictions.
by Pippa Holloway via OUPblog on April 28, 2014
This editorial cartoon from a January 1879 edition of Harper's Weekly depicting a white man misspelling words on a sign announcing Black voters must pass a literacy test, while a Black man looks on laughing.

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

The Court & the Right to Vote: A Dissent

How the Supreme Court got it wrong.
by John Paul Stevens via New York Review of Books on August 15, 2013

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.
by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee via SNCC Digital Gateway on January 1, 2013

Re-mapping American Politics

The redistricting revolution, fifty years later.
by David Stebenne via Origins on February 5, 2012

Their Own Talking

Reconsidering Septima Clark’s life challenges many of our ideas about the Civil Rights Movement and women's roles in it.
by David P. Cline, Septima Poinsette Clark, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Eugene P. Walker, Katherine Mellon Charron via Southern Cultures on June 1, 2010
Kwame Ture at at a 1966 Mississippi Press Conference. Public Domain.
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Stokely Carmichael Interview

A field secretary of SNCC discusses the importance of maintaining political power inside communities at the county level.
via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on April 21, 1966

The Selma March

On the trail to Montgomery.
by Renata Adler via The New Yorker on April 10, 1965
Photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. speaking into microphones.

Let Justice Roll Down

"Those who expected a cheap victory in a climate of complacency were shocked into reality by Selma."
by Martin Luther King Jr. via The Nation on March 16, 1965
Political cartoon of Freedman's Bureau agent separating angry whites from defensive freedmen.

The Freedmen's Bureau

“No sooner had Northern armies touched Southern soil than this old question, newly guised, sprang from the earth: What shall be done with slaves?”
by W.E.B. Du Bois via The Atlantic on March 1, 1901
The Northampton Election, December 6, 1830, by J.M.W. Turner, c. 1830. A British election taking place in a town square with people waving banners and standing around.

The Tyranny of the Ballot

A man who wants everyone to know his views explains why he’s against voting in secret.
by Sydney Smith via Lapham’s Quarterly on January 1, 1879
William Goodell in a suit.

William Goodell and the Science of Human Rights

William Goodell was praised by Frederick Douglass for being among the most important opponents of slavery in his time.
by Steve Gowler via Jacobin on December 7, 2025
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