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🗓️ 4 November 2022
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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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0:04.8 | Your hustle is celebrating its 100th episode. |
0:08.1 | This season, the show will be revisiting its very first episode, |
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0:18.2 | But this time, there's a twist. |
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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, |
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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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