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#DCStatehoodNow

Have you heard about the time Frederick Douglass, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, and Belva Lockwood all occupied the Washington, D.C.…

post-Election Day, 2020

I try to imagine what it felt like to have no vote. Not an insignificant vote, not a challenged vote, not a gerrymandered vote. No vote. To imagine…

Diane Nash

Just one of many moments of Diane Nash’s fearless leadership, this fr the Freedom Rides: After buses were attacked in Birmingham & Anniston, CORE…

Thank you, Diane Nash

Great thread from @marthasjones_ about the #vanguard. One of these founding mothers is still alive. What if everyone tweeting about the Voting Rights…

The Crisis - Suffrage Special Issue 1915

With the New York referendum looming, The Crisis published its second special issue on women’s suffrage in August 1915. The cover was an arresting…

The 17th Amendment

Unsurprisingly, DailySuffragist readers know their amendments. As 62% of you knew, the 16th Amdt allowed Congress to levy a direct income tax. They…

Working the polls

Dr @marthasjones_ says we shouldn't talk about suffrage, we should talk about voting rights. There's no before and after, just an ongoing struggle. In…

Voting is everything

Voting is everything...and it's so insufficient. It took lifetimes to win, and needs our work to keep. In the words of the future Governor of Georgia,…

Literacy tests

Great thread from @clancynewyork on the persistence of New York's literacy test for voting. It was introduced in 1923, as a wave of anti-immigrant…

There is no right to vote

.@Stephen_A_West says we can celebrate the 15th Amdt sesquicentennial for two months, because that’s how long it took to shuffle the states into line…