The blacks couldn't afford the tax
The Poll Tax prevented people who did not have the money to spare to vote. It was a technique used to restrict voting.
Poll taxes were not meant to keep the poor from voting, although that was a unintended consequence. Poll taxes were used to keep African-Americans from voting. What made the practice especially egregious was the fact that many Southern states passed laws that exempted most whites from paying the poll tax.
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Any man who was able to read and could pay the taxes for voting. (poll taxes)
A poll tax was a fee required to vote. A person who who could not or did not want to pay the fee could not vote. Poll taxes discouraged ex-slaves from voting.
Most Southern states, starting with Mississippi, tried many ways to block and restrict the voting rights of African American voters. Some of these ways included the requirement of literacy testing, poll taxes and the white primary.
Yes, that is part of the voting rights act.
The poll taxes prevented black males from voting and denied them a voice in the government.
A poll tax is illegal because it prevents minorities from voting.
The Poll Tax prevented people who did not have the money to spare to vote. It was a technique used to restrict voting.
by poll taxes, made them pass literacy test, and the Grandfather clause. :)
they made the poll tax law, literacy lawand the grandfather clause to prevent MOST freed black men from voting
African Americans gained true voting rights in America with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This legislation enforced the constitutional right to vote for all African Americans by prohibiting discriminatory voting practices, such as literacy tests and poll taxes, that had been used to suppress their vote.
The Voting Rights Act of 1964, was signed into law in August, 1965, making various tactics such as literacy tests and poll taxes as a condition for voting. The practices had been set in place by Southern states after the Civil War to deliberately take away the Constitutional voting rights of African Americans.
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