A Plot Most Foul: Silencing the Black Vote Reprise
At election time, Dr. Carol François and her niece Kourtney Square want you to know systemic racism is on the ballot, too. In this episode, you’ll hear about the Ocoee Massacre and how voter suppression in the past was violent and murderous. Today, voters are still being intimidated and their rights trampled. Listen to hear what’s being done to keep voters out of the voting booth and how folks are fighting back. Look for all episodes and social media at www.podpage.com.whyaretheysoangry
Citations
“Are States Purging Or Cleaning Voter Registration Rolls?,” All things Considered, NPR,December 20, 2019.
“Black voters continue to face voter suppression 155 years after Juneteenth, PR Watch Editors, PR Watch, June 19, 2020.
League of Women Voters, https://www.lwv.org/
“19th-century political parties kidnapped reluctant voters and printed their own ballots – and that’s why we’ve got laws regulating behavior at polling places,” Kristin Kanthak, The Conversation, October 21, 2020 8.21am EDT Updated October 22, 2020 8.59am E
Southern Poverty Law Center, https://www.splcenter.org/what-we-do/civil-rights-memorial/civil-rights-martyrs
“The vote that failed,” S.J. Ackerman, The Smithsonian Magazine, November 1998.
“The voting rights act of 1965,”This Day in History, The History Channel, original Nov. 2009, Updated Aug. 25, 2020. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/voting-rights-act
“Timeline: Voter suppression in the US from the civil war to today,” Terrance Smith, ABC News, August 20, 2020.
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow . Jim Crow Stories . Enforcement Acts | PBS.
The 1873 Colfax Massacre Crippled the Reconstruction Era | Smart News
Apr. 1, 1807 | Ohio Prohibits Any Black Person from Testifying Against a White Person
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