Historian Carol Anderson on Voting Rights and the 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage

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🗓️ 18 August 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The right to vote is a fundamental part of democracy -- a right, however, that hasn't always been afforded or guaranteed to all in the United States. August 18 marks the 100th anniversary of the day Congress passed the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote. It was a hard-fought victory, but still only a starting place for Black women and other women of color. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 later sought to make access to the vote more fair and complete for all, but a key part of the law was struck down in 2013 and legislation to restore it remains in limbo as voter suppression efforts grow. This hour we'll talk to Carol Anderson, historian and author of "One Person, No Vote," about the state of voting rights and the significance of women's suffrage, then and now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:30.3	On this day, 100 years ago, Congress passed the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote.
1:36.1	We'll talk with Carol Anderson, historian and author of One Person, No Vote, about the long struggle of black women and other people of color to get and keep the
1:45.8	right to vote. We'll also get her thoughts on the president's attacks on mail and balloting
1:49.9	and fears that he's undermining the U.S. Postal Service to disenfranchise voters. Join us after
1:55.6	this news. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. There's perhaps no clear indication of the power of the right to vote than in the effort to deny it to people.
2:23.3	The 19th Amendment passed on this day 100 years ago marked the beginning of another struggle to freely exercise that new constitutionally enshrined right to vote, especially for black women and other women of color.
2:36.0	And it's a struggle felt broadly that continues to this day, according to our guest, Carol Anderson,
2:41.4	with gerrymandering, the closure of polling places, the purging of voter rolls, and efforts to so doubt in the integrity of ballots.
2:49.5	Anderson is a historian and chair of African American Studies at Emory University.
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