Attacks On Votings Right In The USA Are Not New

"David Daley believes democracy in the United States is under threat. In his new book 'Antidemocratic,' Daley suggests that far-right actors -- including those within the Supreme Court -- are controlling American elections. He describes a 50-year plot to undermine voting rights by attacking key legislation designed to protect these rights. The author joins the show to discuss the implications of all this as Americans prepare to head to the polls in November."

Click on the link below for an expose of a major problem within the USA:

Has the Supreme Court Undermined Voting Rights?

Voting Rights Continue To Be Under Attack

"The Department of Justice, created in 1870, was initially formed in part to enforce Reconstruction-era laws aimed at ensuring voting rights for formerly enslaved people. Yet, nearly 150 years later, voting access is still under attack. Eric Holder made history as the first black U.S. Attorney General, serving in the Obama administration. Holder now serves as the chairman of the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, which focuses on fighting back against gerrymandering to achieve fair maps. He joins WITHpod to discuss the fight for voting rights, growing redistricting concerns nationwide and how concerned he is about the possibility of former president Donald Trump being reelected."

Click on the link below for the podcast:

Protecting Voting Rights

Women's Vote In The USA: The History

"Like the momentum for the Fifteenth Amendment, the push for rights for women had taken root during the Civil War as women backed the United States armies with their money, buying bonds and paying taxes; with their loved ones, sending sons and husbands and fathers to the war front; with their labor, working in factories and fields and taking over from men in the nursing and teaching professions; and even with their lives, spying and fighting for the Union. In the aftermath of the war, as the divided nation was rebuilt, many of them expected they would have a say in how it was reconstructed.

"But to their dismay, the Fourteenth Amendment explicitly tied the right to vote to “male” citizens, inserting the word “male” into the Constitution for the first time."

Click on the link below for the history of the steps involved in allowing women to vote in the USA. Unfortunately, it is similar to other rights efforts for women. 

I think frequently about my mother and the history of women's rights in the USA. She was born before women could vote. She graduated 4th in her high school class but could not go to college. She became a widow in 1962 but could not get a credit card in her own name until 1974.

History of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution