Fighting for the Right to Vote: Voting Rights Act of 1965 | US History | Extra History

[@extrahistory]

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[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your content guys! You're the Best 😊😊😊😊❤❤❤

[@ParchedTerror13]

Extra history is cool

[@also_arles]

This video was a pretty hard watch, I can't stress enough how much I appreciate what y'all are striving to do with encouraging people to exercise their right to vote.🤞

[@dantetre]

USA is not a democracy. It is a failed, two party hypocrisy.

[@Celestial_Reach]

thank you so so much for doing this video at such an important time

[@Hyde_Hill]

The whole failure of reconstruction is something that is really under highlighted. Could use it's own series. Also plus a million internet points for the RATM reference.

[@SaiyanHeretic]

"The North won the War, the South won the Reconstruction."

[@Semper_Iratus]

Democrats then and now. Same bigots different script.

[@Historyandlegends789]

It’s deliberate. Most conservatives don’t want history taught because it would make them be questioned by anyone with half a brain cell

[@chazcmeekins83]

It wasn't a failure it was Deliberately Sabotaged. Saying it failed means the process was working as Intended....that was not the case AT ALL.

[@Hyde_Hill]

@@chazcmeekins83 Thanks and indeed could have done a better word choice there.

[@TheMasonK]

Lyndon Johnson is a great example of the phrase “no matter what you’ve done yesterday, you can still do good today”. Credit to him for putting his racial bias aside and helping finally end a serious issue (for the most part).

[@noonespecial9704]

Some would say he also did this for political reasons. He's quoted as saying "I'll have those n****** vote blue for the next hundred years." Which if true, is very haunting on how manipulative 60's democrats were

[@TheHistorySoldier]

If Lyndon Johnson had not handled Vietnam the way he did, we'd be ranking him as one of the greatest five presidents.

[@noonespecial9704]

@@TheHistorySoldier I'd say he also did terrible for the US domestically. His war on poverty actually created more poverty

[@kyuven]

​@@noonespecial9704ain't that always the case tho? War on drugs made more drugs and caused more deaths. War on terror created isis and didn't kill the taliban. Now the latter is in control of Afghanistan again. If someone declared a War on illiteracy half the country wouldn't know how to read.

[@tu4764]

Even if the law changed, the evil in the hearts of these people never left. Slavery ended at the end of a gun, and Jim Crow ended by federal law, with local resistance that has rearranged. No hearts changed, they still hide their time.

[@matthewdopler8997]

Another context is that the 14th amendment gave them citizenship and the 15th amendment gave men the right to vote regardless of race. So the Southern states responded by making laws that required things like literacy to vote. Since this upset poor whites, they added a grandfathered clause. President Grant created the Department of Justice to fight the KKK.

[@noonespecial9704]

And it was effective. The Klan was dying out by the end of his presidency and Reconstruction was actually starting to work and reintegration the south into the US through unified law no matter the race was starting to take effect. Even early attempts of Jim Crow Laws like Apprenticeship, which is basically slavery under a different name, was shot down by federal courts in the South. Unfortunately reconstruction ended and the South regressed :/

[@nickjoffe8433]

American History in a Nutshell: With every step towards enlightenment, a fall into chaos follows.

[@wanna-be-thinker2377]

Pretty much, sadly..... 😢 The important thing is to try to resist staying in that circular path, even when it seems hopeless to resist.

[@hestiathena4917]

It's been a frequent occurrence for most of human history, to be honest. Though admittedly, America seems to go through the cycle at a more extreme pace...

[@IliyaMoroumetz]

I wouldn't say a fall into chaos, more like a backlash against change by those who profit from the status quo.

[@penitent2401]

it's the way the American system is set up, with every landmark vote or case the opposition to the result does not accept it until much later when it maybe become normalised and they gradually follow suit. or not and continue openly opposing and practising their way in one form or another.

[@bentonhenderson382]

@@hestiathena4917 America is an experiment from the word GO, Winston Churchill for one observed and articulated it best, "you can always count on the American's to do the right thing...after they've already attempted everything else..."

[@WibblyWobbly1905]

Remember to vote in all the elections, state govs, city govs, and ballot initiatives are important too

[@extrahistory]

100%!

[@misterwheatley1386]

>thinking voting does anything Lol, lmao even

[@tangerinefruit7205]

@@misterwheatley1386Voting may feel like it doesn’t matter on a larger scale, like presidential voting and even voting for a governor, however when it comes to a more local level, voting is really important because local leaders have a more immediate effect on our lives and so our votes matters “more”.

[@bjarkiengelsson]

​@@misterwheatley1386>thinks voting is useless Lol, lmao even. Take the L

[@ecurewitz]

I always do

[@lauraazure6462]

Such an important time to talk about this

[@stanisawzokiewski3308]

Why?

[@King_Nex]

​@@stanisawzokiewski3308We have an election coming up and both sides can't agree on who is and is not allowed to vote.

[@ЯрославКовальчук-и9ь]

​@@stanisawzokiewski3308because a lot and I mean A LOT of right wingers are back at trying to turn public sentiment against it

[@stanisawzokiewski3308]

@@King_Nex that seems like a good reason to talk about it. However the video doesnt answer the question: who should be allowed to vote? The closest thing in this video is "more" and "young people". But the video doesnt outline on what basis or whithin what boundries. It seems to just say "more".

[@208jdog]

​@@stanisawzokiewski3308found the right winger

[@bthsr7113]

Some of the ugliest topics are the most important to inform people about. Thank you. At some point, we might need you guys to cover THAT incident in THAT village in Vietnam.

[@halpee7690]

Ignoring problems is the easy thing to do, but it’s never the wise thing to do.

[@leonb2637]

Sadly the Mi Ley attack is a subject that is difficult to discuss on YT due to its violent nature.

[@agentewok146]

What about Nanking? A lot of people keep forgetting THAT also happened in history.

[@DanBacksIide]

I love these episodes Especially because they don’t seem to be talked about in depth as much

[@Stop_arguing_with_strangers]

They are, you’re just not looking for it

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

FOR DEMOCRACY!🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@crocowithaglocko5876]

FOR DEMOCRACY

[@clixoer]

FOR DEMOCRACY🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@FoodFanBoy7845]

For Democracy!!!!

[@YAZIZOL]

Hell divers reference

[@midsue]

For Democracy.

[@BryanWagstaff-i2t]

Nitpick on women's vote: The "no woman of any color was allowed to vote until 1920" is wrong. Women's suffrage was a state-by-state issue, and many states allowed women to vote. Wyoming granted women's votes in 1869, Utah 1870, Colorado in 1893, Idaho in 1896. By 1920 they were joined by Washington (1910), California (1911), Oregon (1912) Arizona (1912), Montana (1914), North Dakota (1917), New York (1917), Rhode Island (1917), Louisiana (1918), Oklahoma (1918), and Michigan (1918) in allowing women to vote. The 19th amendment in 1920 declared that no state should deny or abridge the right to vote based on sex, although some states dragged their feet in changing the state law. /edit:spelling.

[@THECHEESELORD69]

Good to know! I guess they didn’t mention it since it was not the main focus of the video?

[@BryanWagstaff-i2t]

@@THECHEESELORD69 Even though it wasn't the point of the episode, it's rare to hear something so blatantly backwards, they're usually pretty close to right even with occasional errors or omissions or glossing over details. To be fair it's a somewhat common issue for people to get backwards, instead of *"none did before this date"*, it was *"some did but it wasn't required everywhere before this date"*. Another similar one is women's rights with banking. Nondiscrimination laws in finances and credit are sometimes also misstated that women couldn't have bank accounts or was illegal to have bank accounts or own property before 1974. Instead, prior to that many women did and it was perfectly legal, but discrimination was rampant, especially in southern states.

[@AngelBolt]

@@BryanWagstaff-i2t I do understand your point, re: the last One. Saying discrimination in southern states was rampant may be true. I'd like to add in the factoid of it being 'not able to open a bank account without your husband or father's permission.' You could *certainly* get one, but in the decades before electronic transfers and more integrated record keeping, you'd have to get *into* the banking system in the first place. And there were definitely women with solo bank accounts set up with their fathers or husbands, with no issue. But there were also women who were pinned down by that limitation for many reasons, nefarious or well intentioned or not. Issue is, if you were a woman in those southern areas, and were in a situation where you needed to leave for your saftety, you'd have to carry a giant bag of cash, or pray you could get far enough away where you *could* make a bank account. My point is, women in the south who can't have access an FDIC guaranteed financial tool deserve it just as much a women in the north who may have had that, be it state law or tradition or whatnot. The codified law is what allowed for terms of discrimination to even be drawn conservatively in favor of the likely victims. It's not that discrimination did or didn't happen before or wherever. It's that the law became the tool, blade to decide what is and isn't inhumane. (total aside, not to any point made in this discussion, I'm surprised how unsurprised I am when thinking abotu how discrimination in the south is just.... accepted and assumed to happen, and not in the north, for some reason. personal cognitive bias? history repeating itself? traits of human nature that get exacerbated by confirmation? idk.)

[@charlesbranscomb8493]

@@BryanWagstaff-i2t yea just like colored was voting ing north Carolina until 1835.... Yea you rea that right 35 years before the civil war colored was voting there.

[@SlushymanGT]

Well I guess they said that then because then It would be when women voting rights where protected on a federal level.

[@ETiarnach]

Gotta love me a youtube video that talks about democracy and doesn't shy away from the fact that it is in serious decline. Be aware of whats happening around you people, we might take democracy for granted but we must remember that rights are fought for, not given.

[@tashacooper1753]

It doesn’t help that our democracy seems to like to kill people in the name of freedom

[@timothyteo4602]

If we don’t fix the current issues at hand, autocratic superpowers such as Russia and China will eventually seize the opportunity to smear our values entirely, with the possibility of losing states who staunchly uphold our values being then under imminent annexation by those autocratic powers. Democracy should prevail!

[@sarasamaletdin4574]

I mean in US maybe. Not worldwide

[@ETiarnach]

@@sarasamaletdin4574 europe too tbh, fascism is increasingly normalised, peoples right to demonstrate is being stripped away and democracy is being slashed at releatedly in nations like serbia and Hungary

[@Bshmjdsdyk]

John Brown’s body lies a moulderin’ in the grave

[@bjarkiengelsson]

But his soul keeps marchin' on!

[@PlagueDocterBella56]

@@bjarkiengelsson Glory glory hallelujah

[@bjarkiengelsson]

@@PlagueDocterBella56 Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! 🇺🇸 🎆 🗽

[@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n]

@@bjarkiengelsson Glory, Glory, Hallelujah, his soul is marching on!

[@thomasdaywalt7735]

Glory glory hallelujah

[@philipwharton7444]

7:00 Put another way LBJ did something that has not happened b4 or since...He changed his mind and turned his back on his oldest friends & political allies, people who helped him reach that very office! Why? Because it was the right thing to do...

[@Foxpawed]

Oh, it happens plenty of times. It's just rarely for that reason. Usually they do so for money and power.

[@Stop_arguing_with_strangers]

@@Foxpawedglad you got the point lol

[@justicedunham4088]

Don’t just vote, become informed of who and what you are voting for. Far too many people are directly harmed by bad policy and politicians because they voted for a D or R next to a candidate’s name without any knowledge of who that person is.

[@Damonkyking]

I'm not American, and i just want to say something to those here who are: Please,*please* think about voting. A lot. Write down your reasoning, anything,just think. Find ideas,,and scrap them, build theories,and break them down. Your vote counts. Not only to you,but to all of us. So,so many developed(and not) countried would suffer the consequences of a bad US president. So please,from the bottom of my heart,*think*.

[@Irohtheweirdo]

It's very interesting to think that these people, like in the KKK or something else, thought that they would be put in history as heroes. They obviously weren't for good reason, but still interesting to think about.

[@GCOSBenbow]

The ignorant have been told their culture is being threatened by these 'others' who are 'different' (even though their culture today looks nothing like their culture 10 years ago). They've been raised to celebrate their culture (in whatever form it currently is) as the greatest ever culture! And are told that losing their (very mutable and ephemeral) culture is a dark and terrible thing. Defending their culture by whatever means necessary is, therefore, the highest of priorities and the greatest of honours! So they do their deeds for everyone sake! (Or at least everyone 'like' them). They know they're the heroes! History rarely repeats itself, human behaviours constantly do.

[@ashleywilmington8048]

An episode on L.B.J and J.F.K would bee really cool

[@Oli_Bird3041]

Wow, I’m 17 1/2 and I’ve been debating voting, and this just gave me the reason to vote. I hate that we are never taught this in school

[@AndresSilva-m2u]

It’s because conservatives have been slowly eroding our education system and replacing it with how to be a complacent worker

[@extrahistory]

[@HistoryScott]

I'm a high school history teacher who teaches this topic & many more like it every year, and it is a part of my state's curriculum so it is required to be taught. If you weren't taught it, there's a reason for that.

[@Celestial_Reach]

I dont think there could have been a better time for this video. They say those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. I just hope those who do know the history are not forced to watch it happen again.

[@charlesbranscomb8493]

Why.....

[@bigrichman100]

Sadly, many do not want to listen about the pitfalls of the past.

[@agentewok146]

@@bigrichman100 Makes me think of The Giver by Lois Lowry.

[@braxtonthelucario2129]

​@@bigrichman100 land of thr free my ass i hate thia fucking country i hate living here as i watch as my future gets stripped away by shitty presidents and shitty senators aiming to turn the country back in the 50s

[@LexiLunarpaw]

For Democracy!!

[@dantetre]

USA is not a democracy. It is a failed, two party hypocrisy.

[@bjarkiengelsson]

​@@dantetreWe're a democracy.

[@ecurewitz]

Yes

[@noonespecial9704]

​@@bjarkiengelssonWe're a Contintuional Republic

[@anttibjorklund1869]

A form of democracy.​@@noonespecial9704

[@adktheory2031]

I stand for the Republic, for democracy

[@rick7424]

Hello there!

[@adamraserovaquera]

Will democracy die once again among loud cheers? Is It maybe too rotten to move its hands to clap to the choir of oblivion? Only time can tell

[@MaxEG-i3w]

I stand for the monarchy But also for democracy

[@Bloodlyshiva]

The main problem being the Republic was corrupt as hell even before Palpatine started sticking his hands in it.

[@user-wi9se5ll3j]

I stand for freedom, for tribalism

[@Mmm230496]

It's not a democracy until everyone is free

[@halpee7690]

Unfortunately, that notion clearly conflicts with the personal interests of certain people

[@raltzei8120]

Brother say this again, those in the back are not paying attention.

[@sotirismitzolis5171]

Athens was a democracy, the very first in fact, and most people weren't free.

[@mickeydickey565]

Who isn’t free in the US?

[@lysanamcmillan7972]

@@sotirismitzolis5171 It was not a full democracy because of what you said right there. The legal definition of "person" is the issue. If you are not of the demos, you are not a person. So Athens was an oligarchy.

[@GeneralLuigiTBC]

I'm sure this video won't provoke any hostile reactions from people who disagree with the EH team's political views... /s

[@JohnnyLodge2]

Why should a cartoon video channel have readily identifiable political views?

[@Anaxemenies]

@@JohnnyLodge2 Because… shockingly I know… cartoons are made by people… And people have political beliefs.

[@danielnemesio3388]

​@@JohnnyLodge2usually is pretty clear who the anti racist side is

[@fighterofthenightman1057]

@@danielnemesio3388 That’s a delusional and self-flattering perspective, lol.

[@King_Nex]

I feel like historians should be like news reporters: not inserting their own political beliefs.

[@firstnamelastname5449]

John Lewis spoke at my school a couple of years before he died. Was really neat. (He’s got a name tag in the opening scene on the bridge)

[@luminozero]

I always loved his saying "Make good trouble." He knew, better than most, that change often comes after a lot of chaos.

[@HedgehogSpeedSonic]

The American Civil War shouldnt have ended with just accepting a "my bad bro" from the Confederacy and letting them rejoin the Union. The Union should have claimed the South and their plantations, changed management, and reshaped their society from the ground up.

[@errorcrj110]

@@HedgehogSpeedSonic While probably correct, that ignores the reality that there were many, many people in the Union that were sympathetic to a problematic extent, let alone the active supporters of the Confederacy. That view implies the north was always in the right when it clearly wasn't. See school segregation in the north for an example. The myth that the Union and the north were all avidly anti-slavery is a dangerous one.

[@lysanamcmillan7972]

Attempts were made. In fact, the several states had to issue apologies and demonstrate good-faith efforts at toeing several lines. But the first reply to you sums up a lot of why it went to crap. And the South was in disgustingly bad shape as well. Plantation owners weren't fans of paying for better infrastructure. Likely because better roads meant easier escapes for enslaved humans.

[@tplayzroblox]

This issue needs to be talked about more Props on making this episode

[@MarcMagma]

7:50 I'm sorry but I have to call bs on that. As a non-american, having a leader who won because they got votes from a few important states rather than because the majority of voters supported them (meaning they won the electoral vote but lost the popular vote) does not sound very "representative" or "fairly elected" to me. While it's fine if both votes align, if they lost the popular vote, they represent a minority of people, not the majority which is what a democratically elected leader/government should represent, especially in a country like the US where it always comes down to only two parties.

[@justinbryant2361]

To be honest we've only had four presidents that didn't win the popular vote but yeah our "electoral college" is not even a good system.

[@THECHEESELORD69]

@@justinbryant2361 the electoral college is and was a compromise, unfortunately the founding fathers couldn’t predict every tiny detail of events in the future, they did their best to set the nation off with a good start and they mostly pulled it off.

[@misterwheatley1386]

>Non American Irrelevant opinion detected.

[@THECHEESELORD69]

@@misterwheatley1386 I get that you think the joke is funny. But it’s not. Form one American to another, quiet down, for once we are getting outside opinions

[@misterwheatley1386]

@@THECHEESELORD69 My brother in Christ I don't want or need the opinion of people who don't live in my country on how to run it.

[@Tekodey]

I love this history channel

[@MarkLawden]

I have voted in almost every UK election, national or local, since 1974. I have never had to wait in line for more than five minutes at the polling station. If US voters need to wait in line for so many hours that their access to water becomes an issue, that is due to a deliberate intention by those charged with running the election to make it difficult for some people to vote. The officials presiding over this shambles must be devoid of self-respect.

[@andrewklang809]

No, they just fundamental(istical)ly believe that some people should have superior rights, that there are natural betters and lessers, and that power justifies itself. Or, in other words, Conservatives.

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Always look forward to your videos guys! You always make My day ❤❤❤❤❤

[@wackypacky6917]

Correction: Shelby v Holder Was decided in 2013 not 2023

[@SaberknightX]

Politicians having to EARN our votes instead of being entitled to it? What a revolutionary idea!

[@alejandrorosado1555]

The food and water thing is insane

[@FlyOnTheWall117]

Yeah. That law went overboard. I get the angle they were trying to use as you’re not allowed to have political promotion signs or groups within a a certain radius of a polling center and it’s usually political groups hanging out the food and water, but still it seems a little too heavy-handed say no hanging out water all things. Especially if that water doesn’t have political messages on the bottles being handed out

[@hi5dude2]

​@FlyOnTheWall117 thats cause the point wasnt to prevent people from influencing votes, but was just an easy excuse to hide the real intent.

[@bentonhenderson382]

this is JUST in time for me to teach a lesson in my American History Class on Reconstruction and serve it as a tie in to the Civil Rights movement which I'll have to cover later! THANK YOU EH TEAM!!!!

[@holstorrsceadus1990]

I'm already subscribed but calling those people "ghouls" made me a fan for life.

[@KayMeyer-ii5sm]

Loved the rage against the machine reference😊

[@DanTheYoutubeAddict]

This video is important because we as a nation need to understand why we need to participate in our sham of a democratic republic since the alternative is authoritarianism.

[@WOLF36554]

I hope you guys ever make a video about Lyndon Johnson. He is such a fascinating man. Both the best and the worst a politician can be.

[@StrayDup]

9:42 I always wondered what you looked like

[@extrahistory]

[@lane1776]

I'm not surprised

[@TheJacobG]

That still a drawing, just a really detailed one.

[@michaeljebbett160]

If you didn't bother registering to vote, and you don't like how the election turns out, you have no business complaining when you had the chance to make a difference, however small.

[@Oxtocoatl13]

And depending on where you live, the difference you can make could be huge. The system is so twisted that this election might come to resemble the election of 2000, where a couple thousand people in one state decide the who affair.

[@Wolfeson28]

Indeed. I say that every election cycle: "If you don't vote, you lose all right to complain about the government until the next election...and I haven't met many people who want to give up that right."😁

[@wigglyziggly]

A piece on the 1968 election would also be pretty neat. Lots of parallels between it and our current one. If we stay home because of a single policy decision we disagree with, we’ll be stuck with someone who’s infinitely worse than Nixon. Break the cycle. Vote. Elections have consequences.

[@RoyalFusilier]

I really feel like this discussion has to include that the 'single policy item' that at least some people are upset over is genocide in Gaza.

[@scpatl4now]

@@RoyalFusilier Genocide in Gaza is horrible. The whole situation in that part of the world is horrible, but if by not voting our freedoms are lost...nothing can be done about it. Women lost their freedom of bodily autonomy the last time someone running for office was President. If he gets in again, it will be far worse for Gaza, Ukraine, and for those of us in the US

[@noonespecial9704]

​@@scpatl4nowHamas shouldn't have started a war they couldn't win. This is what happens when you put war before peace. And on the topic of international wars, how can America fully help the people in Ukraine if we can't even take care of ourselves? If America falls and our economy continues to fall, so will the free world. It's time to put America first and focus on domestic problems not foriegn. Also women still have bodily autonomy in most states, and those same states offer money for those who wish to remove the baby from the womb to travel to said states.

[@noonespecial9704]

Nixon isn't actually that bad of a president. He did a lot of good for the nation. Watergate just ruined his reputation, and he didn't even have any part in it

[@MarkArandjus]

If you hadn't made that RATM reference, I would have.

[@nightmarefreddle4174]

We are currently doing a project that involves voting and getting people to register, and we went over the history of voting rights. This is very informative and interesting, I’d love to see a series of all the major voting rights being put into action and the steps people took to get them added.

[@phoenixshadow6633]

I love democracy. I love the republic.

[@Karanudaysingh]

For Democracy

[@HeatherRider]

When a relatively chill Channel talks about a deep topic, you know it's serious.

[@connormcnulty6377]

I like how this topic is so serious, animated Matt switched to regular Matt. Seriously people, go and vote.

[@leonb2637]

I was a kid when I saw on TV and in the newspapers the battles for voting and civil rights in the USA. While the former CSA and a few other states were openly racist including hard laws of racial segregation, in the north, there was plenty of it, especially in employment, housing and schools without laws. I have also visited the Civil Rights museum and memorial in Montgomery, AL, the Civil rights Museum and ML King historical district of Atlanta, GA,, the Memphis, TN site where ML King was assassinated. All bring up the reality, the horrors of segregation and racism of its time and sadly still exists today, like disproportionate criminal incarceration rates and sentences and the attempts to restrict the access to voting by Republicans.

[@robkenner5456]

Wow. Powerful. This should be shared across every platform as possible

[@optimus2200]

I want people to imagine how close that is ... many of your grandfathers ... Hick some even your father might lived through the bridge incident

[@tobybartels8426]

Pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act!

[@ThatGUY666666]

Could not agree more with the description of LBJ an incredibly fascinating and contradictory man.

[@lolmanboss]

As a romanian i tell you, EVERY vote matters. I also vote regularily even though I live in austria, because if I don't vote for my beliefs, governments will use that in some way

[@gleamergleam3220]

I clicked on the video because I've always been interested in the Civil Rights Movement and I thought it would be neat to review what I know, but whoooaaa, I learned so much more new things. This was an informative video and I hope we continue to exercise our right to vote.

[@baguette2117]

No matter your polotics please go out and vote.Please vote in every single election

[@Dr.-Dank]

It should be noted @7:16 that the Southern Strategy succeeded in electing Nixon in 1972, but that the Republicans had tried it in the previous elections of 1964 and 1968. It failed in '64 because the Democrats were still the party of the south & LBJ was a southern candidate, whereas it didn't quite work in '68 because of George Wallace's candidacy for the Presidency.

[@Legendary-Past]

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was such a crucial moment in US history. It’s inspiring to see how far the fight for equal rights has come, even though there’s still work to be done. Thanks for covering this important topic!

[@lostbutfreesoul]

If you have registered to vote... check to ensure your still on the register. One of the tricks the parties like to do is 'update' the records....

[@andrewcoleman502]

Shelby County was 2013 (the other name being Holder is a hint)

[@Shadow_The_Pad]

Please tell the story of the 1898 Wilmington Coup!

[@Archon3960]

I think it is long overdue we get a series on the complicated figure in US politics that was Woodrow Wilson.

[@uninvincibleete]

thank you for this video!!!!

[@TheRedHand01]

Great video!

[@paradoxinteractiveprisoner4244]

Tldr: Southern democrats+Conservative Republicans threw a temper tantrum, many such cases

[@Afish8me2china]

Please do a video on stonewall

[@RichardAlvino-y5t]

Umm, in such an extremely divisive times going on right now, i think not for now, lest the you-know-who comes.

[@bjarkiengelsson]

​@RichardAlvino-y5t The you-know-whos also get roasted and banned on this channel. I've seen them come in droves. But EH fans don't let the get very far.

[@Afish8me2china]

@@RichardAlvino-y5t I don’t know what you’re talking about? Also it’s not divisive. Let people live their lives how they want, it’s none of your business who someone is attracted to, and if it is, you’re the problem

[@Magmafrost13]

@@RichardAlvino-y5t thats exactly *why* its needed, lest such people gain even more influence

[@FakeBlocks]

Please do the Greek war of Independence against the Ottoman Empire. I've been asking for this since the first episodes of sengoku Jidai!

[@krum1703]

I'm sorry to inform you, but I don't think that they'll cover anything that happened south of the Danube river that has happened after the 6th century AC

[@Jimmeh946]

@@krum1703 Why do you think that? Also the siege of Vienna was south of the Danube and happened after the 6th century AD.

[@krum1703]

@@Jimmeh946 like, they really just don't talk about the Balkan after Justinian. Closest they got was the series on Vlad III. As far as I am concerned, they'll never do an episode on the Balkan people's struggles for independence, nor their struggles against one another.

[@MBeast2]

Shelby County v. Holder was in 2013, not 2023. That’s kind of important - the weakening of voting rights protections has been playing out over the past decade, so we don’t have to guess that it will inspire a new wave of racist voter suppression; we’ve had years to watch it happening.

[@comettamer]

Perfectly timed video, no doubt about that

[@matthewmerchant2038]

This was fantastic and extremely relevant. Well done!

[@shanesenixon486]

Great job! Thank you

[@JorgeDiaz-ly5qp]

Thank you!

[@Angelofdeth20]

A reminder that 1965 was not that long ago!

[@generalsmite7167]

It is sad when in a country that has only ever been a democracy has to deal with voter suppression but also interference and politicized mistrust

[@thevisitor1012]

It's common. When Rome became a democracy originally only the patricians could vote.

[@generalsmite7167]

@@thevisitor1012 While I get your point and Rome is a great example for looking at political violence and oppression, I would not consider it a democracy but an oligarchical republic. That being said my opinion is debatable and the republic did have democratic elements I just don’t think that’s it’s a good example of a democracy and it never really acted as one as authority was always maintained by the higher class.

[@andrewklang809]

The US has only ever been a democracy for some Americans. And reactionaries want to drag it back to how it was when it was a democracy for only a ruling minority.

[@bodgethemechanic]

Aw man, I just learned this in school so the teacher cant use it now :(

[@AngelBolt]

send it to your teacher anyway, be ungovernable but always learning.

[@Darkdjinn79]

Vote, people literally died for the right.

[@stevecooper7883]

"If voting could change anything, we wouldn't be allowed to do it." Mark Twain

[@Jimmeh946]

@@stevecooper7883 "If I were a brain eat ameoba in stevercooper7883's head, I'd probably starve." Brain Eating Ameoba

[@mongul305]

ratm fan here. love how lyrics mean more than you may hear

[@pointly]

VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE

[@michaelbuzza2095]

Wow... Extra history is edgy right now. Thank you for putting all this in historical context

[@KeeGalaxy]

I love that ExtraHistory isn't afraid to bring up an objective view on modern topics and relate them to our past. Props to you guys!

[@mokasaam1819]

4:28 My heart to all those innocent African Americans who lost their lives to racist attacks, I hope the situation in America has improved. Those Democrats showul have been rotting in jail cells.

[@ebonyblack4563]

Those who stand idle enable the evil of others. Vote, it's the least you can do to protect people.

[@Rudnaz_127]

One of the greatest acts in United States history.

[@ktakatheo]

currently working in Jordan - sent my mail in vote YESTERDAY. USE YOUR VOTE! And that doesn't mean "vote only 2 parties."

[@Bariom_dome]

I´m procrastinating writing a report and this video helped me to keep procrastinating.

[@krispyier]

Asian Americans are also very affected by the ID laws and other attempts to be disenfranchised. Shelby County v. Holder in 2013 has especially affected the Asian American voters which puts the burden of proof on citizens. Language access and requiring "eligibility" is being weaponized against Asian American and Latin American voters. Asian American voters are also the fastest growing demographic in the US. Asian American voters have been systemically targeted, especially by people who question our loyalty to the US and our eligibility to vote. Asian Americans have also been terrorized (sometimes related to elections) including the violence of lynch mobs and riots that destroyed our neighborhoods. The Chinese Exclusion Act, Asiatic Barred zone, Gentlemen's Agreement, and racist laws that were in place from the colonial times until the Civil Rights Movement are nearly never mentioned, even in otherwise excellent histories like these.

[@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n]

RIP Representative Lewis, we lost you way too soon!

[@downix]

One problem I do have with the VRA'65 is the elimination of at large Congressional districts alloted by proportional voting. It forced a winner take all system on Congress while rewarding gerrymandering.

[@gridly.todd.h]

I've already voted. Early voting is awesome!

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in.

[@andrewklang809]

Timely.

[@SWATDRUMMUH]

Man, humanity truly is terrifying. We really need to change for the better

[@scribblesandnotes493]

My father was there i took him to see the movie he cried hard at the final crossing

[@The_Rec_Gentleman]

Hey extrahistory could you do a tutorial on how you draw your characters?

[@Dragonbender09]

your hat looks very nice

[@CornCrakerOats]

6:38 Damn even racists can have humanity

[@EricStelzman]

When you're talking about the 19th Amendment, be sure to talk about Harry T. Burn.

[@spartan662501]

Have Mississippi, alabama and Georgia ever been on the right side of history?

[@angelhare8374]

No

[@stevecooper7883]

Maybe in recent times under Governor Kemp avoiding endorsing the steal narrative of Jan 6.

[@AbdulRaheem-fk8ru]

Well hey many prominent Americans like MLK, Rosa Parks and Fannie Lou Hamer came from there and kickstarted the civil rights movement, pretty awesome if you ask me

[@spartan662501]

@AbdulRaheem-fk8ru that is like saying luke skywalker came from the galactic empire. Just because people come from a shitty, oppressive place that force people to rise up for their freedoms doesn't mean the place is good.

[@robertbreedlovecraft]

2:05 pedant's corner: but weren't there several states that granted women's suffrage before 1920? I believe Wyoming was the first in 1890

[@Oxtocoatl13]

Yes, 1920 saw the constitutional amendment that made it nation-wide, but a few states had done it previously. Actually, the first one was New Jersey in 1790 or something, but they went back on it and restricted the vote to men in the early 19th century.

[@thesuccessfulone]

This will probably be covered in the "Lies" bit after the series is over.

[@cuyohistoriador2858]

Freedom never sleeps!