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StoryCorps: Registering to Vote

This text is a conversation between Theresa Burroughs and her daughter, Toni Love. It was recorded for StoryCorps, a nonprofit oral history organization seeking to collect and preserve the diverse stories of people throughout the United States.
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Theresa Burroughs and Toni Love
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Does anyone know when these events occured?
Hi, kweber24. These events likely occured in the late 1940s, according to the original source. You can access the original story here: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6821347
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