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> [Usually we look at it like, "Oh, black people couldn't vote in Mississippi because they had to take a literacy test." But one of the things you learn in the film is that there were major consequences for even trying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stanley-nelson-jr/usually-we-look-at-it-like-oh-black-people-couldn-t-vote-in/)

[Stanley Nelson Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stanley-nelson-jr/)

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