Lots of people also died to make sure that we have the right to organize our workplaces, a right that’s just as much enshrined in law as voting:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_deaths_in_Uni...

Their sacrifice wasn’t any less important or necessary to the expansion of the democracy in the United States. In fact, it was this “bringing politics to the work” that provided the means for workers having real representation for them in government in the first place.