‘Know your history’: Mobile native goes viral using poll tax certificate to inspire young people to vote in Tuesday’s election

Ala. – Loretta Green is a walking history lesson, and she’s gone viral because of it. The 89-year-old is taking her Alabama poll tax exempt certificate from 1960 to voting rallies and telling young voters why she doesn’t miss an opportunity to cast her ballot. Green, an Air Force veteran, was exempt from paying the poll tax because she joined the military.

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