Felony disenfranchisement, along with poll taxes, literacy tests and byzantine ... place — in a case that began to unravel the Voting Rights Act, which he suggested was no longer necessary ...

However, many faced artificial hurdles like poll taxes, literacy tests, and other measures meant to discourage them from ...

“We have to remember the Civil Rights Movement still hasn’t ended ... requiring Black voters to pass certain tests and pay poll taxes that were at the time costly to most.

“There is no poll tax. There is no white-only primary ... claims about voter fraud — particularly about noncitizens voting in the upcoming election. “There’s a reason Joe Biden brought ...

things like poll taxes and literacy tests were used to make it harder for them. Getty Images All that changed in 1965, when the Voting Rights Act was passed, outlawing many of those practices and ...

Opal Lee, the 97-year-old civil rights icon known as the “Grandmother ... to choose between feeding her children and paying a poll tax to vote. “I didn’t have the $1.75 needed to pay the ...

“The devil in that bill is in the details, and the SAVE Act puts barriers on American citizens voting, and actually is a modern poll tax,” she told host Chris Stirewalt on Sunday. Speaker Mike ...

Elsewhere, Sir Keir Starmer has been defending his workers' rights offer ... news about the UK general election Poll tracker: How do parties compare Voting: When is the election and how do ...

Citizenship laws, poll taxes, threats, and violence barred African American, Latina, Native American, Asian American, immigrant, and poor women. Many African American women could not vote unimpeded ...

Two poll taxes4 had previously been passed ... was also down to tax - Britain wanted to tax the colonies without giving them voting rights. As if history had taught them nothing, Margaret ...