Poll taxes were fees levied at polling places from the Reconstruction Era through the Civil Rights Era. They prevented many Black and low-income voters from voting.

Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests in Selma, Alabama. ... AP U.S. Government Key Terms Civil Rights & Civil Liberties Constitutional Foundation Federalism and State Issues U.S. History ...

A poll tax certificate issued to Alice Irby of Selma, Alabama by the United States Civil Service Commission, Voting Rights Act of 1965. The page is white paper with black printed ink text and fields.

These voter suppression efforts ramped up in the 1950s and 1960s, even as the struggle for civil rights heated up. This poll tax reminder from Amarilo, Texas, is on display at the Smithsonian ...

The Civil Rights Act was signed into law on July 2, 1964. ... It also made tactics aimed at preventing Black people from voting, such as literacy tests and poll taxes, illegal.

Alabama (WVTM) — Loretta Green is a walking history lesson, and she’s gone viral because of it. The 89-year-old is taking her Alabama poll tax exempt certificate from 1960 to voting rallies ...

Arkansas' first state constitution, adopted in 1836, authorized a poll tax to be used for county purposes. But things changed following the Civil War. Subscribe ...

A number of Southern states had a poll tax that was aimed at preventing by Black people, many of whom couldn’t afford to pay it. This is a receipt for a $1.50 poll tax paid in 1957 by Rosa Parks ...

Poll taxes were fees levied at polling places from the Reconstruction Era through the Civil Rights Era. They prevented many Black and low-income voters from voting.

Louissaint also spoke with historian Barry McNealy, who serves as the historical context expert for the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. “The poll tax was used to discourage Black people from ...