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101-Year-Old Philadelphia Woman Makes History With Ballot Close To Her Heart In 2024 Election
It wasn't until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that Green—at the age of 42—could vote.
November 6, 2024
At the York House retirement community in North Philadelphia lives a woman who has walked through a century of history — and cast a historic vote during Tuesday's Election day by voting for the first Black female presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris.
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As doors to basic civil rights were opening, Lear Green was born in August 1923 in Beaufort, South Carolina, during the Jim Crow era when voter suppression tactics prevented Black women from voting.
It wasn't until the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that Green—at the age of 42—could vote.
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