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Banging on the Door: The Election of 1872

Radio Diaries

Radio Diaries & Radiotopia

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Voting rights was just as hot an issue in 1872 as it is today. In 1872, Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women went to cast a ballot in the election - and Anthony ended up arrested and tried. But another woman named Victoria Woodhull took things even further. That same year, she ran for president of the United States - the first woman in American history known to do so.

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0:00.0

While we've got you, we want to tell you about a radio-topia show with some news to share.

0:04.8

Your hustle is celebrating its 100th episode.

0:08.1

This season, the show will be revisiting its very first episode,

0:12.4

a listener favorite called Sellies, about the relationships formed inside a prison cell.

0:18.2

But this time, there's a twist.

0:20.4

The whole episode takes place inside a women's prison.

0:24.2

And the show checks in on one of its producers, Roshan New York Thomas,

0:28.9

who was recently released from prison for an inside look at life on parole.

0:33.7

And producers spend a marathon 14 hours out on the yard at Sam Quentin,

0:38.8

from dungeons and dragons to dominoes,

0:41.2

gospel, to geese, weightlifting, to just waiting.

0:44.4

They've got the sounds and stories to prove it.

0:47.1

Radio-topia

0:51.2

From PRX.

0:52.8

From PRX's Radio-topia, this is Radio Diaries. I'm Joe Richmond.

0:56.8

On today's show, we're going back 150 years to the election of 1872,

1:01.8

where there are some surprising echoes of today.

1:09.1

In 1872, the Republican Party was in danger of splitting in two.

1:13.7

Republican incumbent, Ulysses S. Grant, was challenged by Horace Greeley,

1:17.7

with a newly formed, dissident, liberal Republican Party.

1:21.3

To make it more confusing, Greeley was backed by the Democrats.

1:25.2

Another huddishew in 1872 was voting rights.

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