- Christy Clark-Pujara: I was a late in life child
for my father.
He was 47 when I was born.
He was born in 1932; we don't know the month,
in rural Mississippi.
So a few years into the Great Depression
in the Jim Crow South.
And I grew up knowing that voting
was something that my ancestors had to fight for.
My dad was functionally illiterate,
but the smartest person I knew.
He always had three jobs,
and he did what he could do to help the polls.
So he worked the polls anyway.
And so I always understood that as an African American
and as a woman, voting was critical.
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