happerset decision. when you read that for this for this week, read my version of it, because it's a very long, kind of borg decision until the very end of it. they go through everything they can think of that women have done in american history. they say, the question at hand is are women citizens. they say they did this, they did they and they did this, and yes of course they're citizens. but then there's a kicker at the end of it. the kicker at the end of it is they say of course women are citizens, but citizenship does not necessarily convey the right to vote. this is a really big deal. because with this decision, the supreme court unhinges citizenship and voting. remember this is reconstruction. and this is 1875 and in 1876, you're going to have a tax on black voting across the south that returns the southern states to the control of white democrats. the idea of women voting is intimately connected to the question of who should have a say in american society. who is a good member of society and who

happerset decision. when you read that for this week, read my version of it because it's a very long kind of boring decision until the very end of it. they go through everything that they can think of that women have done in american history. they say, the question at hand is are women citizens. they say they did this, they did they and they did this, and yes of course they're citizens. but then there's a kicker at the end on f it. the kicker at the end of it is they say of course women are citizens, by citizenship does not necessarily convey the right to vote. this is a really big deal. because with this decision, the supreme court unhinges citizenship and voting. remember this is reconstruction. and this is 1875 and in 1876, you're going to have a tax on black voting across the south that returns the southern states to the control of white democrats. the idea of women voting is intimately connected to the question of who should have a say in american society. who is a good member of society and who sho

and she goes to the registrar and the guy who is at the registrar is a guy named happerset. she goes and tries to register to vote. he refuses to let her register. she sues him. and the case miner v. happerset is going to work its way through the courts and it's going to be decided by the supreme court in 1875. and i'll tell you about that in a minute. but the one you've heard about in this year, in the year of 1872 without probably putting in context, is that susan b. anthony does register to vote. she registers to vote in new york. and she actually casts a ballot in that election. but after she casts a ballot, she is arrested for the crime of voting. that's kind of an interesting concept to get your head around, the crime of voting. and the argument about it being a crime to vote, interestingly enough, they get her under the enforcement acts that were put in place to protect african-american voting in the south. but the crime of voting, the argument behind that is that if people who should not have a right to have a say in american society vote, they're diluting the votes