The Plot to End Voting Rights with Rick Hasen
Factually! with Adam Conover
The Importance of Constitutional Amendments
The 19th Amendment re-enfranchised women in the 1920s. The movement started in the 1780s and really took off after the Civil War. In 1877, a Missouri resident white woman citizen went to the Supreme Court asking if she should be allowed to vote. She was told that voting is not one of those privileges; it's up to the state.
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