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Questions/Answers (for Black U.S. citizens applying to register to vote in Selma, Alabama, in 1963—based on actual exams)
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Questions/Answers (for Black U.S. citizens applying to register to vote in Selma, Alabama, in 1963—based on actual exams)

Issue 140: June 2023

Questions/Answers (for Black U.S. citizens applying to register to vote in Selma, Alabama, in 1963—based on actual exams)

By Editor| 2023-06-02T13:59:55-07:00 June 15th, 2023|Categories: Issue 140: June 2023|Tags: Poetry, Ellen Girardeau Kempler, right to vote, voter suppression, Black suffrage, Jim Crow, poll tax|

By Ellen Girardeau Kempler After you pay your poll tax, Boy, I’ll ask you how many jellybeans are in the big jar I keep on my Registrar’s desk? How many bubbles are in this bar of soap? How many seeds are in a watermelon, any watermelon? (An answer you should naturally know.) How many drops [...]