They limited the number of people to those who could afford to vote.
The twenty-fourth amendment helped African Americans to vote by eliminating poll taxes.
With the government eliminating poll taxes, it allowed many more to be able to vote.
they created poll taxes and literacy tests to stop African Americans from voting; the taxes succeeded because the newly freed African Americans had been forbidden to read as slaves, and had little, or no money to vote with.
poll taxes
prevent poor african americans from voting
by eliminating poll taxes
Tools to disfranchise African Americans.
by eliminating poll taxes
Poor whites and African Americans. -Apex
Poll taxes and literacy tests
Voting
Poll taxes primarily affected African Americans in the southern United States during the Jim Crow era. These taxes were used as a means to disenfranchise and prevent African Americans from voting by requiring them to pay a fee in order to cast their vote.