90 - Voter Suppression Part 1: Stolen Seats, Stolen Lives

CONTENT WARNING: The following episode includes brief discussion of physical violence and sexual assault. Listener discretion is advised. This multi-episode series is about efforts to suppress or limit the vote in certain communities across the United States in order to achieve specific outcomes. In Part 1, Jaye discusses the history of the vote in the United States as it pertains to race and ethnicity from the founding through the Jim Crow segregation period. She argues that there has always been tension between the democratic impulse to expand the electorate, and the anti-democratic desire to limit the electorate to more powerful, privileged groups. Nothing is new under the sun. Twitter: @potstirrercast IG: @potstirrerpodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/potstirrerpodcast/ Website: PotstirrerPodcast.com Source Material: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/06/14-gop-controlled-states-have-passed-laws-to-impede-free-elections/ https://a.s.kqed.net/pdf/education/digitalmedia/us-voting-rights-timeline.pdf http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/greeley.htm https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/06/18/juneteenth-slavery-freedom-delayed-celebration/7713722002/ https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/black-leaders-during-reconstruction https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=963036 https://www.crmvet.org/info/lithome.htm https://connecticuthistory.org/literacy-tests-and-the-right-to-vote/ https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendment/amendment-xv https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_smith.html https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbaapc.33200/?st=gallery https://www.britannica.com/topic/grandfather-clause Music: Potstirrer Podcast Theme composed by Jon Biegen from Stranger Still http://strangerstillshow.com/ http://jonathanbiegen.com Six Feet Off the Ground composed by Nana Kwabena Whitesand composed by Eternity Link: https://youtu.be/50Deyoe3cFY Music provided by: xEpic Journey Woods composed by Oak Studios Creative Commons - Attribution ND 4.0 https://youtu.be/eAiAlg22gqQ Plantation composed by Audionautix Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Willy's Neon Lasso composed by The Whole Other