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Red String of Fate - Enamel Pin
According to legend, an invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstances.
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Poll tax exemption, 1898. Photo courtesy of Johnson family.
Voting and civic participation has always been important to my family, as shown through my great-great-grandfather’s poll tax exemption. Years later, in 1899 the NC state legislature passed laws requiring literacy tests (but included grandfather clauses that allowed poor whites who couldn’t read to continue to vote.) I look at this image often to remind me of where I come from, and to never take my rights for granted.
Story from Michelle Lee
Washington Post’s Historically Black Ask Box is open for Tumblr’s next round of Issue Time on Voting Rights. Washington Post reporters, columnists and other experts (including Michelle who submitted above!) will be answering your questions on the history of voting rights in the U.S., voter suppression and the current political landscape.
We’ll be accepting questions until Wednesday, Sept. 28 and publishing the responses here on Saturday, Oct. 1.
Ask away!
(via staff)
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