Freedom Riders
Threatened. Attacked. Jailed. Could you get on the bus?
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One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.
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Celebrate the strategies and tactics of the movement in a new interactive experience.
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Inside Texas attorneys’ long fight for Latino voting rights.
The Vote |
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The action, and promise, behind Native American representation in the U.S.
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For two centuries, black women have linked their ballot access to the human rights of all.
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Black women played an essential role in the suffrage movement.
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The role of protest, agitation and struggle in the evolution of the country we live in today.
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A woman’s journey to raise Latino voter participation in the eastern Coachella Valley.
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Historian and biographer of the Freedom Riders remembers the civil rights icon.
The Murder of Emmett Till |
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Dispelling myths to learn how the Black response to racist murder transformed America
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Clayborne Carson discusses King's relationship to the Bible, his opinion of Marx, and the science fiction novel that helped shape his activism.
