The implementation of poll taxes was used to legally prevent poor blacks and quite often poor whites from voting. The tax was to be paid as a prerequisite to casting a ballot. This was later made unconstitutional by the 24th amendment.
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Tools to disfranchise African Americans.
poll taxes and literacy tests
African Americans -Mr.Carlson
The Southern states kept African Americans from gaining political power by denying them an education. They also passed laws to keep them down. They were not allowed to own property and most of them could not read or write.