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Pauli Murray, but wait Gloria Steinem too
Still Fighting for equal protection
Who Counts as a Person? The illusion of the 14th Amendment
In this episode, I introduce Pauli Murray. A powerful person who challenged authority and then led the charge to change the world. I shift topics to talk about Gloria Steinem and the impact she had on the world and the movement. YouTube Education on the 14th Amendment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYzx7NLBw8M Gloria Steinum https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gloria-Steinem Jane Addams, Hull House https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jane-Addams
Equal protection is not equal. Trump Officials Under Pressure to Deport Haitians After Supreme Court Win on T.P.S. Program - The New York Times Trump Signs Executive Orders Targeting Birthright Citizenship and ‘Birth Tourism’ - The New York Times Women’s Suffrage: U.S. Movement, Leaders & 19th Amendment | HISTORY
Who counts as a person? This is not, in my opinion, as complicated a question as members of SCOTUS might have us believe. In this episode, I briefly discuss the absurdity of Citizens United, then walk back to the late 19th Century and Myra Bradwell, the woman who pushed for her autonomy in law and practice. (This podcast is my interpretation of the case, the history, and the 14th Amendment Reference: Citizen's United v Federal Election Commission, 2010 Reference: Bradley v Illlinois, 1873 Reference: https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/amendments/amendment-xiv Reference: https://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/family-law/family-law-keyed-to-weisberg/being-married-regulation-of-the-intact-members/bradwell-v-illinois/
In 1776, as the men of the Continental Congress debated independence and imagined a new nation, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, and asked him to do something radical:“remember the ladies.” In that same letter, she warned against giving husbands “such unlimited power” and wrote, “all men would be tyrants if they could.” Abigail Adams did not have a podium. She had a voice. She was not signing a founding document. She was writing from home, from the margins of official power — and yet she saw with startling clarity what the architects of the nation were building, and who they were leaving out. She understood that if a country was going to be born in the language of liberty while ignoring women, that contradiction would not disappear. It would harden into law, custom, marriage, property, politics, and everyday life. Her warning came at the beginning. The consequences are still with us. www.masshis.org Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov