What are poll taxes?

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  1. plural of poll tax
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Senator Carter Glass worked to expand the disenfranchisement laws along with poll taxes and literacy tests.
Didn't we do away with poll taxes some time ago?
In 1964, the 24th Amendment, which abolished the use of poll taxes as a requirement for voting in federal elections, was passed.
White officials used all kinds of devices to keep blacks from voting, including literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, intimidation, and outright violence.
Already in the hopper was another bill, by Florida's stanch New Deal Senator Claude Pepper, to outlaw poll taxes altogether.
It outlawed literacy tests and poll taxes as a way of assessing whether anyone was fit or unfit to vote.

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