Today’s episode is entitled “We Got What We Wanted”. The 3rd in a 3 part series.
Key Points:

• New Voting Laws have been passed since the last presidential election which many feel restrict voting rights
  
  
• Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves– and the only way they could do that is by not voting.
  
  
• Although Voting is very important, nothing will affect your life more than the choices that you make.
  
  

Resources:
Selma Mayor: 'An Awesome Time For Our City' : NPR

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-03-26/biden-slams-georgia-voting-law-as-an-atrocity

Today’s episode is entitled “Struggling For Voting Rights”. The 2nd in a 3 part series.
Key Points:

• The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. However many Black Women still could not vote due to Jim Crow
  
  
• Opelousas Massacre that took place in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana killed 250 Black people to suppress turnout among Black voters
  
  
• March 7, 1965, Bloody Sunday, Up to 600 activists set out in Alabama to march from Selma to Montgomery to protest for Black voting rights. But when the marchers reached the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, they encountered White state troopers, who attacked them with billy clubs and tear gas.
  
  

Resources:

Why the Women's Rights Movement Split Over the 15th Amendment (US National Park Service)

https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=NPO19230110.2.98&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------

George Mason and Slavery | Fourth Estate

How White Suffragists Excluded Black Women In Their Fight For The Right To Vote – WABE

Why did Black Americans have to fight so hard for the right to vote?
Key Points:

• In March 1857, the Supreme Court issued a 7–2 decision against Dred Scott. In an opinion written by Chief Justice Roger Taney, the Court ruled that people of African descent "are not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word 'citizens' in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for and secures to citizens of the United States".
  
  
• In 1890, Mississippi held a convention to write a new state constitution to replace the one in force since Reconstruction. The white leaders of the convention were clear about their intentions. “We came here to exclude the Negro,” declared the convention president.
  
  
• Mississippi cut the percentage of black voting-age men registered to vote from more than 90 percent during Reconstruction to less than 6 percent in 1892.
  
  

Resources:
The Supreme Court . The Court and Democracy . Biographies of the Robes . Roger Taney | PBS

Civil Rights Act of 1875 | United States [1875] | Britannica

Plessy v. Ferguson: Separate But Equal Doctrine - HISTORY

Brown v. Board of Education | Case, 1954, Definition, Decision, Facts, & Impact | Britannica