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American Experience: The Vote (Part 2)

American ExperienceSeason 322020-07-07

Overview

Part Two examines the mounting dispute over strategy and tactics, and reveals how the pervasive racism of the time, particularly in the South, impacted women's fight for the vote.

Details

Series: American Experience
Season: Season 32
Episode: Episode 8
Air date: 2020-07-07
Runtime: 55 min

Episode context

The Vote (Part 2) is Episode 8 in Season 32 of American Experience. It aired on 2020-07-07. The runtime is 55 min.

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Episode 7: The Vote (Part 1) 2020-07-06 | 55 min One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.

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