Ali Velshi

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554 appearances 10 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 16 Sep

Ali Velshi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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At least 620,000 people, some say three-quarter of a million people, died in the Civil War.
Killed.
by fellow Americans.
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery.
The 14th Amendment established birthright citizenship, due process, and equal protection under the law.
The 15th Amendment guaranteed the right to vote regardless of race.
Three amendments, five years, the most radical expansion of American democracy since the Declaration of Independence itself.
And then, within a decade, the South began systematically dismantling every one of those promises.
Black officeholders driven out.
Black voters terrorized.
Black communities burned.
The federal government looked away.
It was called redemption.
They were redeeming white supremacy.
The promise of reconstruction would not be kept for a hundred more years.
And even then, not fully.
By 1920, America was 144 years into the experiment, yet half of its population could not vote.
The 19th Amendment needed one more state, Tennessee.
The legislature in Tennessee was deadlocked.
A young Republican named Harry Byrne was 24 years old, and he was expected to vote no.
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