The Plot to End Voting Rights with Rick Hasen
Factually! with Adam Conover
The Disenfranchisement of Voters in America
More people are eligible to vote today than ever in American history./nBlack Americans were enfranchised through the 15th amendment and Voting Rights Act./nThe 19th amendment enfranchised women./nThere are no longer poll taxes or property tests for voting./nBlack Americans were voting in large numbers after the Civil War, but then faced retrenchment and suppression during the Jim Crow era./nAmerica was a functional apartheid state for 100 years until the 60s./nVoting is easier now than before 1960, but there are still challenges in some places./nNative American voters in some areas face similar barriers as during the Jim Crow era.
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