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TALLAHASSEE – When 80-year-old Sam Palmer was growing up in Gadsden County, few Black Floridians were eligible to vote — not in those segregation days.
Because of racial violence and restrictive voting laws, there were only seven Black voters in a county of almost 11,000 Black people. Palmer had just turned 18.