Right-wing vigilantes have been in overdrive attempting to challenge the ballots of 2 million voters by Election Day.
This is obviously an attempt to prevent these Stanford students from exercising their rights to speech and intellectual inquiry, in the same way the Jim Crow South used poll taxes and literacy ...
Poll taxes, literacy requirements ... “Separate but equal” and Jim Crow remained unchallenged until Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The convention failed to give the vote to women, but it used poll taxes and felon disenfranchisement to restrict Black suffrage. Often considered to be one of the foundational texts of Jim Crow ...
Due to white southern planters stuffing ballot boxes, provisions were added to the Alabama constitution that restricted Black men’s ability to vote through policies like poll taxes and literacy ...