The 24th amendment prohibited poll taxes
The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution made poll taxes illegal. =)
Yes, poll taxes are illegal in all government elections.
A poll tax was an amount of money that a person was forced to pay in order to vote. After the Civil War in the South, poll tax laws were created in order to prevent freed slaves from voting, as they did not have much money. They were, of course, eventually abolished.
24th amendment
Tools to disfranchise African Americans.
Tools to disfranchise African Americans
The 24th amendment prohibited poll taxes
Low income citizens cannot afford to pay the poll taxes. If they don't pay poll taxes, they can't vote. Incidentally, poll taxes have been outlawed in the United States.
The intent was to keep poor and uneducated people, especially Negroes in the South, from voting.
by eliminating poll taxes
Poll taxes were fees that people had to pay in order to vote. On election day poll officials would require people pay money to vote; the reason they were common in the South is because this tax mostly affected African American voters who could not afford the tax, thus suppressing their voting rights.
Poll Taxes
The Twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution made poll taxes illegal. =)
Until states enacted literacy test and poll taxes in the 1890s.
they threatened to kill blacks and used poll taxes
by poll taxes, made them pass literacy test, and the Grandfather clause. :)