In this episode, Adah and Chelsea sit down to discuss the suffrage movement and how it left out BIPOC women. They cover both the historical implications of the suffrage movement, as well as the suppression of BIPOC voters and other marginalized communities that we see today.

0:20 History of Suffrage

2:02 BIPOC Suffragists

3:14 Who Wasn't Included in Suffrage?

3:52 BIPOC Rights to Vote

6:48 Literacy Tests, Voter ID Laws, Addresses, and Poll Taxes

8:13 More About Literacy Tests

10:25 More About Poll Taxes

11:16 Suppressing Indigenous Voters

12:10 Working-Class Voters

13:38 Harris County Voter Suppression

15:41 Benefits of Mail-In Voting

17:15 BIPOC Women

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Resources

History of Suffrage

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/17/us/suffrage-movement-photos-history.html

Barriers to Voting in the US

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/barriers-to-voting-in-the-us/

Texas and Harris County

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-reduces-mail-in-ballot-drop-off-locations-2020-election/

Voters sue Texas governor over ballot drop box limit

Indigenous Voter Barriers

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/vote-overcoming-barriers-for-native-american-voters/

https://www.npr.org/2016/10/11/497563881/native-americans-face-unique-barriers-to-voting

Voter Suppression Black Voters

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/poll-prri-voter-suppression/565355/

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/17/us/suffrage-movement-photos-history.html