How a Segregationist Secured Women s Rights

In this episode, we delve into the topic of How a Segregationist Secured Womens Rights. {"transcription":"WEBVTT\n\n00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.040\nWhat if I told you that one of the absolute greatest\n\n00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:07.820\nleaps forward for women's workplace rights in\n\n00:00:07.820 --> 00:00:10.880\nAmerican history was actually orchestrated by\n\n00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:14.240\na staunch segregationist? Right. Like a guy who\n\n00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:16.339\nmight have literally just been playing a cynical\n\n00:00:16.339 --> 00:00:19.199\nprank on the house floor. It completely shatters\n\n00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:21.300\nthe illusion we tend to have about these massive\n\n00:00:21.300 --> 00:00:23.379\nhistorical milestones, you know? Oh, absolutely.\n\n00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:25.179\nYou look back at these legislative achievements\n\n00:00:25.179 --> 00:00:27.440\nand we just assume they were, I don't know, pristine,\n\n00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:30.600\nlike these inevitable moral triumphs that just...\n\n00:00:30.170 --> 00:00:32.409\ndropped down from the sky, fully formed. Right,\n\n00:00:32.609 --> 00:00:35.329\nlike a flawless marble monument. But when you\n\n00:00:35.329 --> 00:00:37.149\nactually pop to\n\n00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:37.480\ntalk indefinitely to prevent a vote from ever\n\n00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:40.360\nhappening. Senator Robert Byrd personally held\n\n00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:43.000\nthe floor and filibustered for 14 hours and 13\n\n00:08:43.000 --> 00:08:45.620\nminutes straight. My God. Their objective was\n\n00:08:45.620 --> 00:08:47.840\nsimply to exhaust the bill supporters and just\n\n00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:50.159\ntalk the legislation to death. And to break a\n\n00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:52.580\nfilibuster, you need to invoke cloture, which\n\n00:08:52.580 --> 00:08:55.559\nat that time required 67 votes, a massive super\n\n00:08:55.559 --> 00:08:59.019\nmajority. Right. The physical human drama of\n\n00:08:59.019 --> 00:09:01.740\nthat final cloture vote is just unbelievable.\n\n00:09:02.100 --> 00:09:04.299\nOur sources detail the story of Senator Claire\n\n00:09:04.299 --> 00:09:06.659\nEngel, a rights so closely to economic\n\n00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:06.240\nregulation to bypass constitutional roadblocks,\n\n00:21:06.720 --> 00:21:09.559\ndid America accidentally build a system where\n\n00:21:09.559 --> 00:21:12.200\nour civil rights are only as strong as our identity\n\n00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:15.670\nas consumers and workers? Wow. Right. If your\n\n00:21:15.670 --> 00:21:17.630\nfundamental rights are legally anchored to your\n\n00:21:17.630 --> 00:21:19.769\neconomic output and your participation in commerce,\n\n00:21:20.349 --> 00:21:22.190\nwhat happens to the rights of those who fall\n\n00:21:22.190 --> 00:21:24.769\nentirely outside the economic machine? That is\n\n00:21:24.769 --> 00:21:27.069\na heavy question to leave off on, but a necessary\n\n00:21:27.069 --> 00:21:28.890\none. Keep questioning the history behind the\n\n00:21:28.890 --> 00:21:30.250\nheadlines, and we'll catch you next time.\n","format":"vtt","status":"published"}