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.
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Across town from #LittleRock Central HS in September 1957, a young Jerry Jones joined a mob of white students trying to block Black students from integrating the school.
Yes, that Jerry Jones
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Across town from #LittleRock Central HS, a young Jerry Jones joined a mob of white students trying to block Black students from integrating the school.
Yes, that Jerry Jones
#notevenpast
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#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 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.
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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
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
@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?
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