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Contested Elections Can Unleash Violent White Supremacy. We Have Seen It Before.

Why President Trump’s refusal to commit to accepting the election results is so dangerous.
by Calvin Schermerhorn via Made By History on September 28, 2020
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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Baldwin’s biographer died, her niece opened an old desk drawer and discovered a trove of interview material, some of it unpublished.
by James Baldwin, Fern Marja Eckman, Leslie J. Freeman via The New Yorker on September 22, 2020
Americans in line to vote

The Supreme Court’s Starring Role in Democracy’s Demise

With democracy hanging in the balance in 2020, the Court is clearly playing a decisive and destructive role. Unfortunately, we’ve been here before.
by Carol Anderson via Boston Globe on September 6, 2020

Suppressing Native American Voters

South Dakota has been called "the Mississippi of the North" for its long history of making voting hard for Native Americans.
by Jean Schroedel, Artour Aslanian, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on August 25, 2020

What Right to Vote? There’s a Lie at the Heart of American Democracy

The centennial of women’s suffrage which guaranteed all women the right to vote — has a lie at its very core.
by Lisa Tetrault via New York Daily News on August 22, 2020

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
by Keisha N. Blain via Smithsonian on August 20, 2020

The Unfinished Business of Women’s Suffrage

A century after the passage of the 19th Amendment, women with felony convictions remain disenfranchised.
by Melissa Gira Grant via The New Republic on August 10, 2020

Standing on the Crater of a Volcano

In 1920, James Weldon Johnson went to Washington, armed with census data, to fight rampant voter suppression across the American South.
by Dan Bouk via Census Stories, USA on July 27, 2020

J.F.K.’s “Profiles in Courage” Has a Racism Problem. What Should We Do About It?

Kennedy defined courage as a willingness to take an unpopular stand in service of a larger, higher cause. But what cause?
by Nicholas Lemann via The New Yorker on July 23, 2020
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How Black Women Fought Racism and Sexism for the Right to Vote

African American women played a significant and sometimes overlooked role in the struggle to gain the vote.
via Retro Report on July 6, 2020

The Republican Choice

How a party spent decades making itself white.
by Clare Malone via FiveThirtyEight on June 24, 2020
Part of the pedestal of a monument, inscribed with the words "Bright angels come and guard our sleeping heroes."

The Even Uglier Truth Behind Athens Confederate Monument

It was intended to be a tool of political power, sending a message against Black voting and serving as a gathering point for the Ku Klux Klan.
by Scott Reynolds Nelson via Muster on June 23, 2020
Crowd of people at the counting of Electoral College votes in the U.S. Congress.

The Electoral College’s Racist Origins

More than two centuries after it was designed to empower southern white voters, the system continues to do just that.
by Wilfred Codrington III via The Atlantic on November 17, 2019

What Does Tax Policy Have to Do with the Civil Rights Movement?

How congressional conservatives undermined the civil rights movement through the Tax Reform Act of 1969.
by Evan Faulkenbury via UNC Press Blog on May 13, 2019

A Very Great Change

The 1868 presidential election through the eyes of a Southern white woman.
by Stephanie McCurry via Lapham’s Quarterly on April 16, 2019
1928 political cartoon of Republican hypocrisy for calling Democrats corrupt.

Interchange: Corruption Has a History

Seven scholars discuss the definition, nature, practice, and periodization of corruption in the United States.
by Mary Frances Berry, Paula Baker, Daniel Czitrom, Barbara Hahn, James Kloppenberg, Naomi Lamoreaux, David Witwer via Journal of American History on March 1, 2019

Voter Suppression Carries Slavery's Three-Fifths Clause into the Present

The Georgia governor’s election was the latest example of how James Madison’s words continue to shape our views on race.
by Imani Perry via The Guardian on January 31, 2019

The Myth of a Southern Democracy

Voter suppression tactics have roots in Southern history dating to the Antebellum era.
by Keri Leigh Merritt via The Bitter Southerner on November 1, 2018

You Probably Don't Know This About U.S. Elections

From voting rights to the electoral college, a brief explainer on three widespread misconceptions about voting.
by Alex Keyssar via Harvard Kennedy School on October 30, 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
Voters casting ballots in 2008.

Why the Right to Vote is Not Enshrined in the Constitution

How voter suppression became a political weapon in American politics.
by Sean Illing, Allan J. Lichtman via Vox on September 17, 2018

Terrorized African-Americans Found Their Champion in Civil War Hero Robert Smalls

The congressman and former slave claimed whites had killed 53,000 African-Americans. Few took him seriously—until now.
by Lisa Elmaleh Douglas via Smithsonian on August 22, 2018

How a Pivotal Voting Rights Act Case Broke America

In the five years since the landmark decision, the Supreme Court has set the stage for a new era of white hegemony.
by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on July 10, 2018

Commercial Surveillance State

Blame the marketers.
by Matthew Crain, Anthony Nadler via n+1 on September 27, 2017

'Segregation Had to Be Invented'

During the late 19th century, blacks and whites in the South lived closer together than they do today.
by Alana Semuels via The Atlantic on February 17, 2017

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

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.
by Ari Berman via The Nation on March 5, 2015

Fifty Years After Bloody Sunday in Selma, Everything and Nothing Has Changed

Racism, segregation and inequality persist in this civil-rights battleground.
by Ari Berman via The Nation on February 25, 2015

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

The Missing Right: A Constitutional Right to Vote

In the era of the voting wars, the right to vote is itself a subject of continued partisan, regional, and racial conflict.
by Jonathan Soros, Mark Schmitt via Democracy Journal on May 1, 2013
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