Black Woman Born During Jim Crow Era Says She Can’t Get Real ID

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A Black woman who was born during the Jim Crow Era says she’s unable to renew her driver’s license.
According to CBS News, Janette Gantt Palmer, a 76-year-old retired postal worker from Miami, said she can’t obtain a Real ID license, now mandated by federal law, because she doesn’t have an official birth certificate or a U.S. passport.
Gantt Palmer was born in February 1949 during segregation in Aiken, South Carolina. She never received a birth certifi