国立アメリカ歴史博物館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (国立アメリカ歴史博物館Instagram)「This poll tax notice from Amarillo, Texas dates back to the 1960s. Begun in the 1890s as a legal way to keep African Americans from voting in southern states, poll taxes were essentially a voting fee. Eligible voters were required to pay their poll tax before they could cast a ballot. A “grandfather clause” excused some poor whites from payment if they had an ancestor who voted before the Civil War, but there were no exemptions for African Americans. When combined with violence, intimidation, literacy tests, and whites-only primaries, poll taxes effectively disenfranchised African American voters, nullifying the 15th Amendment's promise that the right to vote would not be denied or abridged "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” Ending the poll tax and other restrictions on voting nationwide was one the principal goals of the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1964 the 24th amendment prohibited the use of poll taxes for federal elections, but 5 states enforced payment of poll taxes for state elections until 1966. That year, in the case Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the state poll taxes violated the 14th Amendment and were unconstitutional. Today is #NationalVoterRegistrationDay. Follow the link in our bio to visit https://vote.gov/ and learn how you can vote in your home state or territory. #AmericanHistory #VoteHistory #PoliticalHistory #AmericanDemocracy」9月23日 3時02分