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    In Depth with Carol Anderson

    Author and Emory University professor Carol Anderson joined Book TV to talk and take calls about voting rights, gun regulation, and race in America. Her books include White Rage and The Seco…

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    House Speaker Weekly Briefing

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) gave a news conference on the legislative agenda. She highlighted the jobs created during the first year of the Biden administration, as well as the passage…

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    Author Discussion on History and Graphic Novels

    Illustrator Nate Powell and author Andrew Aydin talked about their trilogy, which covers the early days of the civil rights movement, the life of the late Representative John Lewis (D-GA), a…

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    Vanguard

    Johns Hopkins University history professor Martha Jones explored the efforts by Black women to win their right to vote. This was a virtual event hosted by Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Ma…

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    White House Briefing

    White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany held a briefing where she took questions on several topics including the 2020 election, tech liability shield Section 230, and the ongoing corona…

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    Open Phones, Part 2

    Viewers responded to Attorney General Barr’s assertion that the Justice Department found no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.

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    African American Voting Rights

    A panel of public historians talked about the history of African American voting rights. They explained how their historic sites and organizations share this history in various ways. This ev…

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    Tuesday in November

    Tuesday in November is a 1945 United States Office of War Information - Overseas Division film detailing the process of voting during the 1944 election, in which President Franklin Roosevelt…

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    Gilded Suffragists

    Johanna Neuman talked about her book, Gilded Suffragists, about the women of New York’s social elite who joined the suffrage movement in the early 20th century. She spoke with Judy Woodruff.

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    Voting Rights March in Selma

    In March of 1965, civil rights activists and religious leaders marched from Selma to Montgomery to demand African Americans be given the right to vote. National Park Service Guide April Bald…

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    Women of the Suffrage Movement

    Historian Susan Ware talked about some of the 19 lesser-known suffrage leaders profiled in her book, Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote. This Nati…

    613 views
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    Remember the Ladies

    Angela Dodson talked about her book Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box, in which she recounts the national suffrage movement and profiles many of…

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    Barack Obama at John Lewis Funeral Service

    Former Presidents Barack Obama spoke at a funeral service for the late Representative John Lewis (D-GA) in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Obama hailed the civil rights leader as a “founding father” o…

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    Suffrage and American Women in Politics

    Historian Elisabeth Griffith examined the legacy of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote and pondered the question: did suffrage matter? With women currently making up only twen…

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    Black Women and the Suffrage Movement

    Professor Gloria Browne-Marshall talked about the struggle of black women to obtain voting rights and compared this with the experiences of white suffragists and black men. This program was …

    3,538 views
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    Attorney General Barr Remarks at the Justice Department

    New Attorney General William Barr spoke at an African American History Month event at the Justice Department. He pledged to protect voting rights during his second tenure at the law enforcem…

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    The Great Revolt

    Syndicated Columnist and CNN contributor Salena Zito and Republican strategist Brad Todd reported on the voters from swing states who supported President Trump in the 2016 election and how t…

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    National Voting Rights Museum

    The National Voting Rights Museum and Institute addresses the struggle of African Americans and women to obtain the right to vote. Historian Sam Walker toured the museum and discussed how Se…

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    Race, Suffrage, and the 15th Amendment

    Professor Michael Klarman talked about what he sees as the flaws of the 15th Amendment and the exploitation and suppression of African American voters by both the Republican and Democratic P…

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    1940s Black Voter Suppression

    Professor Tracy Campbell talked about the 1942 Soldier Voting Act which provided absentee voting for soldiers fighting in World War II. Professor Campbell looked at states that opposed the l…

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