Liette Gidlow, Ph.D.

@ProfGidlow
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Harvard@RadInstitute '20. Historian of US politics/voting rights/women/race/19thA. Wrote The Big Vote & Obama, Clinton, Palin. OAH Distinguished Lecturer. Swam in RFK's pool.

https://clasprofiles.wayne.edu/profile/bb2794

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Jerry Jones has never hired a Black head coach. He could lead change.

Decades after the segregation battles of his youth, Jerry Jones has modernized the NFL’s revenue model but hasn’t hired a Black head coach.

The Washington Post
Jerry Jones has never hired a Black head coach. He could lead change.

Decades after the segregation battles of his youth, Jerry Jones has modernized the NFL’s revenue model but hasn’t hired a Black head coach.

The Washington Post

#Whitesupremacy fueled white women's political advancement.

#Historians Crystal Feimster, Lee Ann Whites, Sally Roesch Wagner and I unpack the politics of Rebecca Latimer Felton, first US woman senator, in this #SmithsonianMagazine article by
Laura Mallonee.
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https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-nations-first-woman-senator-was-a-virulent-white-supremacist-180981150/

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The Nation's First Woman Senator Was a Virulent White Supremacist

In 1922, Rebecca Latimer Felton, a Georgia women's rights activist and lynching proponent, temporarily filled a dead man's Senate seat

Smithsonian Magazine

The untold school segregation story behind Bernie Sanders's 1963 arrest while a student at #UChicago - Chicago Reader

This is part of the long history of the 1954 #BrownvBoard #SCOTUS decision. In 1963, the civil rights group CORE protested segregated, inferior schools.

https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/the-untold-school-segregation-story-behind-bernie-sanderss-1963-arrest/

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The untold school segregation story behind Bernie Sanders’s 1963 arrest

Englewood parents were desperate after Chicago Public Schools officials tried to put black children in a warehouse next to unguarded railroad tracks.

Chicago Reader

Black Americans have *lost* the right to vote many times.

Today I'm busy with the 1838 "Appeal of 40,000 Citizens Threatened w Disfranchisement," a treatise opposing a constitutional amendment in PA.

The amendment was ratified anyway.

PA Blacks lost voting rights until the 15A

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I'm knocking down election misinformation, one rumor at a time.

Michigan elections are safe and secure.

Thanks, Philip Marcelo of AP newswire, for the convo

https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-359611471784

Photos of Detroit election ballot collection misrepresented

CLAIM: Photos show Detroit  election workers illegally delivering thousands of completed ballots for counting long after polls closed on Election Day. AP’S ASSESSMENT: False.

Associated Press

@histodons and @politicalscience, here's a question:
Is incoming LA mayor Karen Bass any relation to LA newspaper publisher/vp candidate Charlotta Bass? Anybody know?

19thNews