There were ways for whites to get around other laws, but not around the poll tax. The “old Jim Crow” era of legalized segregation is said to have ended in 1965 when the Voting Rights Act was ...

July 12, 2012 -- The Jim Crow-era poll taxes have been outlawed for more than 50 years, but if you ask Attorney General Eric Holder, they may be making a comeback in the form of state voter ID laws.

So, to recap, Jim Crow 1.0 entailed widespread murder and violent intimidation, onerous taxes, rigged literacy tests, and a flat prohibition on blacks voting in the primary elections of the ...

An oped article published in the Austin American-Statesman March 11 says the much-amended Texas Constitution, adopted in ...

Jurisprudence The Decision Upholding Florida’s Jim Crow–Style Poll Tax Is an Affront to Democracy Not only can Florida force people to pay a tax before voting, but the state doesn’t have to ...

Poll taxes belong to an ugly chapter in U.S. race relations. They were part of the Southern states’ Jim Crow system, which prevailed from the late 19th century into the 1960s, ...

Poll taxes continued into the 20th century. Voter suppression has been a part of the United States political scene since the nation's inception. From Jim Crow laws to the gutting of the Voting ...

The old Jim Crow was poll taxes; the new Jim Crow is expanding weekend voting. The old Jim Crow was disenfranchising voters en masse based on their race; the new Jim Crow is limiting ballot drop ...

Dailymotion 'The 2024 Version Of A Jim Crow Poll Tax': Jennifer McClellan Blasts New GOP Voting Bill. Posted: July 11, 2024 | Last updated: November 1, 2024 ...

The Wall Street Journal on the AG's claim that voter ID laws are 'poll taxes.' ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala (AP) — The Alabama Constitution, approved in 1901 to entrench white supremacy, still has language regarding segregated schools, poll taxes and bans on interracial marriage. But a ...