As this year marks 100 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing women’s right to vote, we look at the connection between the movement for women’s suffrage and the movement to abolish slavery. Many states created laws to continue to deny women the vote, and African American women were subjected to the same Jim Crow laws already used to deny the vote to African American men. “To look for African American women and their history of the vote in 1920 is to miss the important chapter that begins in 1920 and doesn’t culminate until the Voting Rights Act is adopted in 1965,” says author and Johns Hopkins University history professor Martha Jones, whose forthcoming book is “Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote and Insisted on Equality for All.”
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Cary Harrison Explains The Truth Behind The Mar-a-Lago Raid
What would George Washington say? Secretly flying 35 filing cabinet drawers-worth of Pentagon secrets to your private hotel for favor-swaps was the straw to make all Presidents now raidable. Will this affect a future Trump 2024 run? What about Hunter and Hillary?
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The Cary Harrison Show, Tuesdays at 2PM
Check out Cary's latest episode, including an interview and memories with the iconic actress Nichelle Nichols!
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The Cary Harrison Show, every Tuesday at 2PM!
The Cary Harrison Show, July 12, 2022 - Cary Harrison explains why the Jan. 6 hearings really matter! And Dr. Christopher Davis on stress and your heart.
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Reality Check with Harrison is on every Tuesday at 2PM!
KPFK's Cary Harrison on RT talking about International big oil, climate change, and Apple