Episode #2:The Black Vote in America
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English - October 21, 2020 08:11 - 42 minutes - 58.7 MB - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsHistory News Politics Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This presidential election season has produced a battle for black voters unlike any in recent election history. Black voters have been reliably democratic for several generations, but the history of the black vote shows that this voting group has shifted before - and may be charting a new path yet again.
Podcaster's Note: There are a LOT of sources for this episode, here are some of the key ones:
Black Reconstruction in America, W.E.B. DuBois
The Second Founding, Eric Foner
Kennedy and King, Steven Livingston
https://www.britannica.com/event/Brownsville-Affair
https://ehistory.osu.edu/exhibitions/1912/race/tafts
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