{"id":1480,"date":"2016-10-06T13:28:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T13:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2016-10-06T13:28:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T13:28:27","slug":"protests-and-voting-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/2016\/10\/06\/protests-and-voting-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Protests and Voting Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the last couple of weeks, students in History 211, &#8220;US Elections,&#8221; have been studying some of the most dramatic protests for voting rights in American history. \u00a0They studied the story of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AtUY-wVLdeY\" target=\"_blank\">parades<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pO70ZjZ0wrw\" target=\"_blank\">hunger strikes<\/a> for woman&#8217;s suffrage. \u00a0They also learned about the complicated, lengthy struggle to make the Fifteenth Amendment a reality in twentieth-century America. \u00a0In 2012, CBS News offered a powerful segment recalling one of those moments of struggle &#8211;the violence which erupted on &#8220;Bloody Sunday,&#8221; March 7, 1965 at the Edmund Pettus Bridge near Selma, Alabama. \u00a0After reading Chapters 7 and 8 of Alexander Keyssar&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Right to Vote\u00a0<\/em>(2009 ed.), students should be able to identify\u00a0several elements of this video as being especially teachable for anyone who wants to recall how voting rights and civil rights converged in the mid-twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/00xojzOYdz8\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1481\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1481\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-06-at-9.20.41-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-10-06 at 9.20.41 AM\" width=\"1286\" height=\"718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-06-at-9.20.41-AM.png 1286w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-06-at-9.20.41-AM-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-06-at-9.20.41-AM-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/files\/2016\/10\/Screen-Shot-2016-10-06-at-9.20.41-AM-1024x572.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1286px) 100vw, 1286px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the last couple of weeks, students in History 211, &#8220;US Elections,&#8221; have been studying some of the most dramatic protests for voting rights in American history. \u00a0They studied the story of parades and hunger strikes for woman&#8217;s suffrage. \u00a0They also learned about the complicated, lengthy struggle to make the Fifteenth Amendment a reality in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[344],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discussion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}