Elaine Weiss
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Elaine Weiss
@efweiss5
Journalist. Author:The Woman's Hour:The Great Fight to Win the Vote (Viking/Penguin). Medill grad. MacDowell Fellow. Worried.
Baltimore, MD Katılım Ekim 2017
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Spanberger's historic swearing-in features local flair axios.com/local/richmond…
Congrats to Gov. Abigail Spanberger, first woman governor in Virginia's 400 yr history. Wearing a Suffrage White coat and thanking the women who fought for the vote.
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@TheTNHoller @glamourmag @stephemcneal Good time to remember the brave Tennessee women who fought for voting rights--and pushed TN to ratify the 19th Amendment to the Constitution on August 18, 1920. Read about them in #TheWomansHour:The Great Fight to Win the Vote. True, not sham, warariors
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🔔 Here’s @glamourmag’s @stephemcneal saying what we’ve been saying: “We shouldn’t Ignore Hegseth’s Retweet On Women’s Voting Rights”
(🫡 and thanks for citing us)
glamour.com/story/why-we-s…
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And just days after the VRA was signed, volunteer civil servants were deployed as election examiners to allow Black citizens to register to vote without Jim Crow literacy tests or harassment. @OneSignalPub #SpellFreedom @NAACP_LDF @SNCCLegacy
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Sixty years ago today President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law, proclaiming: "Today is a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield." Today the battle for voting rights continues. #OTD #VotingRights #civilrights
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My latest for The Contrarian. A lesson for spineless Congressional Republicans: Standing up in Congress open.substack.com/pub/contrarian…
@RepRaskin @CoryBooker @RepJeffries @Sen_Alsobrooks #votingrights
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In March 1954, just before Supreme Cts Brown decision came down. southern segregationists used McCarthyite tactics to label civil rights advocates "Communist" and "subversive" Here is Myles Horton of Highlander Folk School being dragged out of a Senate hearing. #Padilla
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On this 71st anniversary of the Supreme Court's Brown decision, explore what came next in this conversation about #SpellFreedom with Rashawn Davis on CSpan 2 Am. History TV at 4:25 pm EDT c-span.org/ahtv/
@NAACP_LDF @BlackVotersMtr @simonschuster
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#OnThisDay May 17, 1954: The U.S. Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board of Education, declaring racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional.
Today, the fight continues for inclusive, quality education for EVERY child.
#BrownVBoard #BlackGirlsVote
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One Signal authors love their indie bookstores! Here in Baltimore, attended a support rally for our @UrbanReads , a Black owned store subjected to threats and harassment. Then enjoyed being a guest bookseller at my home @TheIvyBookshop. Support your indie!
One Signal Publishers@OneSignalPub
Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Today and every day, One Signal and our authors are proud to celebrate indie bookstores and the incredible work they do. ❤️📚✍️
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Happy Independent Bookstore Day! Today and every day, One Signal and our authors are proud to celebrate indie bookstores and the incredible work they do. ❤️📚✍️
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I am honored, if also a bit stunned, to have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Yesterday, I felt my foremothers gathering, nodding their approval. This is in honor of them. amacad.org/news/new-membe…
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Just finished recording an episode with Rick Wilson for his Enemies List show--great conversation.
riverside.fm/shared/snapsho… #RiversideFM
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On e 231, we welcome @efweiss5 to discuss the foundation of the civil rights movement, the origins of the Highlander Folk School, how Black people educated themselves when schooling was illegal, Septima Clark, and the activism of ordinary people.
Full ep: youtu.be/gsxsjN9DO3U
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ela…
YouTube
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⏳ The countdown is on ⏳ SPELL FREEDOM by Elaine Weiss hits shelves in just over one week! Elaine is busy prepping for the release with interviews, with some behind-the-scenes moments from her recording space shown here. Don't miss out, pre-order your copy now!
#SpellFreedom #OneSignalPublishers #ComingSoon
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Political concerns raised as book events are moved from Jimmy Carter Presidential Library ajc.com/news/crime/pol…
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My new book about American citizens fighting for democracy. A rather timely story: @NAACP_LDF @BlackVotersMtr @fairfightaction @LWV @NMAAHC @NAACP @SNCCLegacy @ConstitutionCtr @BrennanCenter
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