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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: Old Enough To Fight, Old Enough To Vote (1971)
Description: It’s July 1st. This day 1971, North Carolina voted to ratify the 26th amendment, which lowered the national voting age from 21 to 18.
Jody, NIki, and Kellie discuss the long fight to lower the voting age, and how it was often tied to an argument about the age at which Americans were sent to war. Plus: should the age be 17 or 16 or even lower?
Find a transcript of this episode at: https://tinyurl.com/esoterichistory
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