The (Literal) Price of Freedom.

For African-Americans living in Texas in the 1950s, it was $1.75

Me and my Uncle R.L. in the early seventies.
This is what you think it is, the receipt they give you after they charge you money to vote.
My Uncle in the last year of his life.

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