Daughter of Slave Casts Vote, Remembers Struggle

At 109 years young, Amanda Jones can still remember when the idea of blacks having the right to vote was as far-fetched as the idea of desegregation. Born in 1899, the former housewife and cleaning lady has lived in three centuries. They were three centuries of struggle from her father's oppression as a slave in Texas to her own battle for equality. It was not just her race, but her gender that kept Jones from the polls. Women did not get the right to vote until she was 21 years old. "I... Full Story