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This election had many firsts and many stories that will be told for generations. But one that’s on my mind tonights about a woman who cast her ballot in Adanta. She’s a lot like the millions of others who stood in line to make their voice heard in this election except for one thing: Ann Nixon Cooper is 106 years old.
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© 2009 Manning Marable and Kristen Clarke
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James, J. (2009). Sovereign Kinship and the President-Elect. In: Marable, M., Clarke, K. (eds) Barack Obama and African American Empowerment. The Critical Black Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230103290_14
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