What were poll taxes and How were poll taxes used to stop African Americans from voting?

Photo of author

Karen Hill

Poll taxes were taxes that only blacks were required to pay if they wanted to vote.

The rules on paying these taxes were deliberately confusing and unfair. Poll taxes were used throughout the South as a way to stop African Americans from voting.

Related Posts

  1. How did African Americans get voting rights in the United States in 1965?
  2. When Were Stop Signs Invented and What Was the First City In the World To Use Stop Signs?
  3. What did the United States Constitution say about slavery and taxes?
  4. How does the blood-sucking “tsetse” fly spread African sleeping sickness and what does the word mean in African?
  5. What Is African Mythology and How Did African Mythology Originate?
  6. Where does the phrase “African dominoes” come from and What does African golf mean?