Episode #2:The Black Vote in America
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By Ralph Gaston & Joan Obra, Ralph Gaston, and Joan Obra. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio is streamed directly from their servers. Hit the Subscribe button to track updates in Player FM, or paste the feed URL into other podcast apps.
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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