A poll tax is a tax required before voting. It was used primarily after the Civil War when the South taxed voters in an attempt to bar blacks and poor whites from voting.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (brought by JFK, but signed by LBJ) abolished segregation in public accommodations; Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed by LBJ, abolished unfair voting practices (too many to name); and the 24th Amendment, which abolished the poll tax on voting the year before (1964).
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
The legal measure that allowed whites in southern states to keep blacks from voting after Reconstruction ended was the poll tax. The poll tax required voters to pay a fee in order to participate in elections, making it difficult for black citizens, who often faced significant economic challenges, to afford the tax. This effectively disenfranchised many black voters.
they passed the poll tax, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses to prevent African Americans from voting. Also, the white southerners formed clans like the KKK to prevent blacks from voting.
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