By Magdala Louissaint Click here for updates on this story Alabama (WVTM) — Loretta Green is a walking history lesson, and she’s gone viral because of it. The 89-year-old is taking her Alabama poll tax exempt certificate from 1960 to voting rallies and telling young voters why she doesn’t miss an opportunity to cast her ballot. Green, an Air Force veteran, was exempt from paying the poll tax because she joined the military. “What I was explaining to them is that, at that time, we didn’t make a lot of money. And so, it was a choice; that was voter suppression because you had to make a choice between paying the poll tax or feeding your family,” Green said. The Mobile native now
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