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#DCStatehoodNowHave you heard about the time Frederick Douglass, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, and Belva Lockwood all occupied the Washington, D.C.…
Diane NashJust one of many moments of Diane Nash’s fearless leadership, this fr the Freedom Rides: After buses were attacked in Birmingham & Anniston, CORE…
Literacy testsGreat 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…
post-Election Day, 2020I 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…
Should anyone ever lose their right to vote?Spending today @ conf on re-enfranchisement, discussing the Jim Crow roots of why most people lose the rt 2 vote when they go to prison. So today take…
Thank you, Diane NashGreat thread from @marthasjones_ about the #vanguard. One of these founding mothers is still alive. What if everyone tweeting about the Voting Rights…
The 17th AmendmentUnsurprisingly, DailySuffragist readers know their amendments. As 62% of you knew, the 16th Amdt allowed Congress to levy a direct income tax. They…
The Crisis - Suffrage Special Issue 1915With the New York referendum looming, The Crisis published its second special issue on women’s suffrage in August 1915. The cover was an arresting…
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…
Voter suppression todayIt's cheating a little in terms of #suffrage content, but this afternoon I gave a talk on what voter suppression looks like now, and I'm sharing it…