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Poll Tax
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A specified sum of money levied upon each person who votes.

Poll taxes, as a prerequisite to voting in federal elections, are prohibited by the Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and have been held unconstitutional with respect to state elections.



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It outlawed poll taxes, literacy tests, White-only primaries and other devices that kept minorities from voting.
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Laws even kept blacks from voting by requiring them to pay poll taxes and pass literacy tests--which were not required of whites.
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White officials used all kinds of devices to keep blacks from voting, including literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clauses (requiring proof that one's father and grandfather had been eligible to vote), intimidation, and outright violence.
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