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America’s long, bitter fight for equal voting rights

Season 1 Episode 1 | 4m 26s

Experts discuss the extraordinary tool of accountability voting can be. But for a long time in America, that right was only available to a select group of people—and this was by design. The ability to vote was and is one of the most powerful non-violent tools citizens can use to change their everyday lives. “The fiercest fights of our history have been to keep other people from voting.”

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