#confederate — Public Fediverse posts
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"Hundreds of people affiliated with the #whitesupremacist group #PatriotFront marched in #WashingtonDC, on Saturday, in a #July4 show of force by the group founded by a veteran of a landmark 2017 far-right rally that featured an #antisemitic chant.
The marchers in #Washington wore masks and some carried #Confederate flags, according to reports and video from the scene. At times, they chanted “Reclaim #America!” — a rallying cry channeling the group’s nativist agenda.
While Patriot Front’s public activities mostly center on its anti-#immigrant and anti-#LGBTQ agenda, the #AntiDefamationLeague has repeatedly cited the group, founded in 2017, as the largest purveyor of antisemitic materials in the #UnitedStates.
One of the group’s signature slogans, which members displayed on a banner in Washington in 2023, is “No #Zionists in Government.”
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"Hundreds of people affiliated with the #whitesupremacist group #PatriotFront marched in #WashingtonDC, on Saturday, in a #July4 show of force by the group founded by a veteran of a landmark 2017 far-right rally that featured an #antisemitic chant.
The marchers in #Washington wore masks and some carried #Confederate flags, according to reports and video from the scene. At times, they chanted “Reclaim #America!” — a rallying cry channeling the group’s nativist agenda.
While Patriot Front’s public activities mostly center on its anti-#immigrant and anti-#LGBTQ agenda, the #AntiDefamationLeague has repeatedly cited the group, founded in 2017, as the largest purveyor of antisemitic materials in the #UnitedStates.
One of the group’s signature slogans, which members displayed on a banner in Washington in 2023, is “No #Zionists in Government.”
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OTD in 2020, #GOP President Donald #Trump announced that he would veto the Defense Authorization bill, defunding the US military, in order to protect military base names honoring #Confederate traitors https://toilet-guru.com/trump/?s=mb #racist
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OTD in 2020, #GOP President Donald #Trump announced that he would veto the Defense Authorization bill, defunding the US military, in order to protect military base names honoring #Confederate traitors https://toilet-guru.com/trump/?s=mb #racist
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OTD in 2020, #GOP President Donald #Trump announced that he would veto the Defense Authorization bill, defunding the US military, in order to protect military base names honoring #Confederate traitors https://toilet-guru.com/blog/63.html?s=mb #racist
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OTD in 2020, #GOP President Donald #Trump announced that he would veto the Defense Authorization bill, defunding the US military, in order to protect military base names honoring #Confederate traitors https://toilet-guru.com/blog/63.html?s=mb #racist
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Imagine the U.S. is #celebrating its 250th anniversary, and #NorthCarolina would rather celebrate the enemy instead.
source: spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charl…
The booth had monitors showing the current North Carolina flag, but it also had a flag split between the current one and the #Confederate #flag.
#news #usa #fail #enemy #civilwar #politics #society #maga #qanon #ethics #birthday #trump #government #whitehouse #problem #mindset #Washington
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MAGA is the last gasp of the Confederacy #duet #maga #confederacy #south #confederate #racism #racist #duet #YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxhUlyyrrrQ
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MAGA is the last gasp of the Confederacy #duet #maga #confederacy #south #confederate #racism #racist #duet #YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxhUlyyrrrQ
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#US #SupremeCourt justices in black robes struggle to raise the #confederate flag on the peak of Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima. They trample on the Voting Rights Act as they do so. -
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#US #SupremeCourt justices in black robes struggle to raise the #confederate flag on the peak of Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima. They trample on the Voting Rights Act as they do so. -
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A lot of words to point out that the #redistricting in the #Confederate States of #America could well backfire on the #Racisticans.
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A lot of words to point out that the #redistricting in the #Confederate States of #America could well backfire on the #Racisticans.
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Either everyone is free or #WhiteSupremacists die... no wait, either everyone is free, or rifle go pew pew.. no, that's not it. Either everyone is free, or no one is free... from shooting a #confederate in his stupid face-GODDAMNIT!!
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Either everyone is free or #WhiteSupremacists die... no wait, either everyone is free, or rifle go pew pew.. no, that's not it. Either everyone is free, or no one is free... from shooting a #confederate in his stupid face-GODDAMNIT!!
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#US #History #HiddenHistory The #Confederate slavers and traitors were more vile than you think. There is always even more to any story. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl04...
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#US #History #HiddenHistory The #Confederate slavers and traitors were more vile than you think. There is always even more to any story. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl04...
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RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116404278842733049
Why did this not happen before 2026?
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RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116404278842733049
Why did this not happen before 2026?
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OTD in 1865, the failed #Confederate States of America surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia https://toilet-guru.com/blog/57.html?s=mb #travel #history #ConfederateSurrender #BlackLivesMatter
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OTD in 1865, the failed #Confederate States of America surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia https://toilet-guru.com/blog/57.html?s=mb #travel #history #ConfederateSurrender #BlackLivesMatter
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OTD in 1865, the failed #Confederate States of America surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/washington-lee-mansion/?s=mb #travel #history #ConfederateSurrender #BlackLivesMatter
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OTD in 1865 the failed #Confederate States of America surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/washington-lee-mansion/?s=mb #ConfederateSurrender #history #BlackLivesMatter
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OTD in 1865, the failed #Confederate States of America surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia https://toilet-guru.com/blog/57.html?s=mb #travel #history #ConfederateSurrender #BlackLivesMatter
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OTD in 1865, the failed #Confederate States of America surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia https://toilet-guru.com/blog/57.html?s=mb #travel #history #ConfederateSurrender #BlackLivesMatter
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#DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump , the worst #POTUS in #American #history , essentially had a #TrumpRally at #FortBragg in #NorthCarolina. Selected attendees cheered when he boasted about changing its name *back* after it had been renamed #FortLiberty by the #JoeBiden administration. Trump didn’t mention that the new namesake is unknown Roland, not original Braxton Bragg!
#Confederate Army General Braxton Bragg is generally considered among the worst #CivilWar generals. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293246/hegseth-fort-bragg-liberty-name
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#DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump , the worst #POTUS in #American #history , essentially had a #TrumpRally at #FortBragg in #NorthCarolina. Selected attendees cheered when he boasted about changing its name *back* after it had been renamed #FortLiberty by the #JoeBiden administration. Trump didn’t mention that the new namesake is unknown Roland, not original Braxton Bragg!
#Confederate Army General Braxton Bragg is generally considered among the worst #CivilWar generals. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293246/hegseth-fort-bragg-liberty-name
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#DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump , the worst #POTUS in #American #history , essentially had a #TrumpRally at #FortBragg in #NorthCarolina. Selected attendees cheered when he boasted about changing its name *back* after it had been renamed #FortLiberty by the #JoeBiden administration. Trump didn’t mention that the new namesake is unknown Roland, not original Braxton Bragg!
#Confederate Army General Braxton Bragg is generally considered among the worst #CivilWar generals. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293246/hegseth-fort-bragg-liberty-name
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#DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump , the worst #POTUS in #American #history , essentially had a #TrumpRally at #FortBragg in #NorthCarolina. Selected attendees cheered when he boasted about changing its name *back* after it had been renamed #FortLiberty by the #JoeBiden administration. Trump didn’t mention that the new namesake is unknown Roland, not original Braxton Bragg!
#Confederate Army General Braxton Bragg is generally considered among the worst #CivilWar generals. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293246/hegseth-fort-bragg-liberty-name
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#DonaldTheDeplorable #Trump , the worst #POTUS in #American #history , essentially had a #TrumpRally at #FortBragg in #NorthCarolina. Selected attendees cheered when he boasted about changing its name *back* after it had been renamed #FortLiberty by the #JoeBiden administration. Trump didn’t mention that the new namesake is unknown Roland, not original Braxton Bragg!
#Confederate Army General Braxton Bragg is generally considered among the worst #CivilWar generals. https://www.npr.org/2025/02/11/nx-s1-5293246/hegseth-fort-bragg-liberty-name
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#EdgarRiceBurroughs offered a wealth of critical fodder with his #Tarzan stories (was it even necessary to list all the problems, starting with the very idea of him?), or his #Barsoom series, where the protagonist #JohnCarter had been a captain in the Army of New #Virginia before becoming a Martian warlord. "A #Confederate officer?" Atticus's father had said, appalled. "That's the hero?"
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#DougWilson Has Spent Decades Pushing for a #Christian #Theocracy. In #Trump’s DC, the #NewRight Is Listening.
#DougWilson has built a #theocratic regime in Moscow, Idaho, where men rule and biblical teachings guide everything. Now he’s taking the model national, with a receptive crowd in the #GOP.
By Ian Ward, 05/23/2025Excerpt: "Wilson has spent much of his career outside the conservative mainstream, which has distanced itself from his frank defense of theocracy, his ultra-#patriarchal views on gender relations and his reactionary stances on race and 'the war between the states,' as he still calls the #CivilWar. (On the 'About' page of his blog, Wilson describes his politics as 'slightly to the right' of the #Confederate general Jeb Stuart.) Online, Wilson has cultivated a punk-rock aesthetic designed to foster his reputation as the 'based' intellectual bad boy of American #evangelicalism: In a promotional video posted at the height of the conservative backlash to '#woke' media companies in 2023, Wilson used a skull-and-crossbones-emblazoned flamethrower to torch oversized cardboard cutouts of various Disney princesses and social media companies, all while puffing on a fat cigar."
#ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascists #USPol #ChristoFascism #Fascism #Fascists #TradFuturism #TraditionalValues #Gilead #MegaChurches #Greed #Racism #UltraPatriarchy #TradWives #MakeAmericaHateAgain #MAGA #Theocracy #AmericanTaliban #Patriarchy #Xenophobia #Colonialism
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#DougWilson Has Spent Decades Pushing for a #Christian #Theocracy. In #Trump’s DC, the #NewRight Is Listening.
#DougWilson has built a #theocratic regime in Moscow, Idaho, where men rule and biblical teachings guide everything. Now he’s taking the model national, with a receptive crowd in the #GOP.
By Ian Ward, 05/23/2025Excerpt: "Wilson has spent much of his career outside the conservative mainstream, which has distanced itself from his frank defense of theocracy, his ultra-#patriarchal views on gender relations and his reactionary stances on race and 'the war between the states,' as he still calls the #CivilWar. (On the 'About' page of his blog, Wilson describes his politics as 'slightly to the right' of the #Confederate general Jeb Stuart.) Online, Wilson has cultivated a punk-rock aesthetic designed to foster his reputation as the 'based' intellectual bad boy of American #evangelicalism: In a promotional video posted at the height of the conservative backlash to '#woke' media companies in 2023, Wilson used a skull-and-crossbones-emblazoned flamethrower to torch oversized cardboard cutouts of various Disney princesses and social media companies, all while puffing on a fat cigar."
#ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascists #USPol #ChristoFascism #Fascism #Fascists #TradFuturism #TraditionalValues #Gilead #MegaChurches #Greed #Racism #UltraPatriarchy #TradWives #MakeAmericaHateAgain #MAGA #Theocracy #AmericanTaliban #Patriarchy #Xenophobia #Colonialism
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#DougWilson Has Spent Decades Pushing for a #Christian #Theocracy. In #Trump’s DC, the #NewRight Is Listening.
#DougWilson has built a #theocratic regime in Moscow, Idaho, where men rule and biblical teachings guide everything. Now he’s taking the model national, with a receptive crowd in the #GOP.
By Ian Ward, 05/23/2025Excerpt: "Wilson has spent much of his career outside the conservative mainstream, which has distanced itself from his frank defense of theocracy, his ultra-#patriarchal views on gender relations and his reactionary stances on race and 'the war between the states,' as he still calls the #CivilWar. (On the 'About' page of his blog, Wilson describes his politics as 'slightly to the right' of the #Confederate general Jeb Stuart.) Online, Wilson has cultivated a punk-rock aesthetic designed to foster his reputation as the 'based' intellectual bad boy of American #evangelicalism: In a promotional video posted at the height of the conservative backlash to '#woke' media companies in 2023, Wilson used a skull-and-crossbones-emblazoned flamethrower to torch oversized cardboard cutouts of various Disney princesses and social media companies, all while puffing on a fat cigar."
#ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascists #USPol #ChristoFascism #Fascism #Fascists #TradFuturism #TraditionalValues #Gilead #MegaChurches #Greed #Racism #UltraPatriarchy #TradWives #MakeAmericaHateAgain #MAGA #Theocracy #AmericanTaliban #Patriarchy #Xenophobia #Colonialism
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#DougWilson Has Spent Decades Pushing for a #Christian #Theocracy. In #Trump’s DC, the #NewRight Is Listening.
#DougWilson has built a #theocratic regime in Moscow, Idaho, where men rule and biblical teachings guide everything. Now he’s taking the model national, with a receptive crowd in the #GOP.
By Ian Ward, 05/23/2025Excerpt: "Wilson has spent much of his career outside the conservative mainstream, which has distanced itself from his frank defense of theocracy, his ultra-#patriarchal views on gender relations and his reactionary stances on race and 'the war between the states,' as he still calls the #CivilWar. (On the 'About' page of his blog, Wilson describes his politics as 'slightly to the right' of the #Confederate general Jeb Stuart.) Online, Wilson has cultivated a punk-rock aesthetic designed to foster his reputation as the 'based' intellectual bad boy of American #evangelicalism: In a promotional video posted at the height of the conservative backlash to '#woke' media companies in 2023, Wilson used a skull-and-crossbones-emblazoned flamethrower to torch oversized cardboard cutouts of various Disney princesses and social media companies, all while puffing on a fat cigar."
#ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascists #USPol #ChristoFascism #Fascism #Fascists #TradFuturism #TraditionalValues #Gilead #MegaChurches #Greed #Racism #UltraPatriarchy #TradWives #MakeAmericaHateAgain #MAGA #Theocracy #AmericanTaliban #Patriarchy #Xenophobia #Colonialism
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#DougWilson Has Spent Decades Pushing for a #Christian #Theocracy. In #Trump’s DC, the #NewRight Is Listening.
#DougWilson has built a #theocratic regime in Moscow, Idaho, where men rule and biblical teachings guide everything. Now he’s taking the model national, with a receptive crowd in the #GOP.
By Ian Ward, 05/23/2025Excerpt: "Wilson has spent much of his career outside the conservative mainstream, which has distanced itself from his frank defense of theocracy, his ultra-#patriarchal views on gender relations and his reactionary stances on race and 'the war between the states,' as he still calls the #CivilWar. (On the 'About' page of his blog, Wilson describes his politics as 'slightly to the right' of the #Confederate general Jeb Stuart.) Online, Wilson has cultivated a punk-rock aesthetic designed to foster his reputation as the 'based' intellectual bad boy of American #evangelicalism: In a promotional video posted at the height of the conservative backlash to '#woke' media companies in 2023, Wilson used a skull-and-crossbones-emblazoned flamethrower to torch oversized cardboard cutouts of various Disney princesses and social media companies, all while puffing on a fat cigar."
#ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascists #USPol #ChristoFascism #Fascism #Fascists #TradFuturism #TraditionalValues #Gilead #MegaChurches #Greed #Racism #UltraPatriarchy #TradWives #MakeAmericaHateAgain #MAGA #Theocracy #AmericanTaliban #Patriarchy #Xenophobia #Colonialism
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Statue of #Confederate general torn down in 2020 protests to be restored in Washington DC
A statue of a Confederate general that was torn down in 2020 during #RacialInjustice #protests will be restored in Washington, DC, #Trump’s #NationalParkService has announced.
In June 2020, the #AlbertPike statue near DC police HQ was toppled & vandalized by protesters.
#WhiteSupremacy #racism
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/confederate-statue-albert-pike-restored-dc-b2801863.html -
Statue of #Confederate general torn down in 2020 protests to be restored in Washington DC
A statue of a Confederate general that was torn down in 2020 during #RacialInjustice #protests will be restored in Washington, DC, #Trump’s #NationalParkService has announced.
In June 2020, the #AlbertPike statue near DC police HQ was toppled & vandalized by protesters.
#WhiteSupremacy #racism
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/confederate-statue-albert-pike-restored-dc-b2801863.html -
Back in my Twitter days, I befriended a guy online from Georgia.
We were both interested in the military and #military #history. One day he sends me this link & suggested we both try to make #hardtack, a common food #ration for both #Union & #Confederate armies. The original recipe lived up to its reputation, hard as a rock.
Later we came up with different methods of making them to be more palatable.Read the link if interested.
https://americantable.org/recipes/civil-war-recipe-hardtack-1861/
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#DonaldTheDeplorable speaking to an audience (screened for loyalty to #Trump over the #UnitedStates ) at #FortBragg in #NorthCarolina speaking about renaming #military facilities named after treasonous #Confederate Generals: “We won a lot of battles out of those forts.”
On the “Late Show”, #StephenColbert joked “Yes, ’cuz when you think winning, you think Robert E. Lee,”
And for #NFL #football fans: “Same reason we just named our new battleship the USS New York Jets.” https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/stephen-colbert-trump-robert-e-lee_n_684a6699e4b04dad09cc1781
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#DonaldTheDeplorable speaking to an audience (screened for loyalty to #Trump over the #UnitedStates ) at #FortBragg in #NorthCarolina speaking about renaming #military facilities named after treasonous #Confederate Generals: “We won a lot of battles out of those forts.”
On the “Late Show”, #StephenColbert joked “Yes, ’cuz when you think winning, you think Robert E. Lee,”
And for #NFL #football fans: “Same reason we just named our new battleship the USS New York Jets.” https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/stephen-colbert-trump-robert-e-lee_n_684a6699e4b04dad09cc1781
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What Is A #PollTax? Definition and Examples
By Robert Longley, July 27, 2022
Excerpt: "In the United States, the origin of the poll tax—and the controversy surrounding it—is associated with the agrarian unrest of the 1880s and 1890s, which culminated in the rise of the Populist Party in the Western and the Southern states. The Populists, representing low-income farmers, gave Democrats in these areas the only serious competition that they had experienced since the end of Reconstruction. The competition led both parties to see the need to attract Black citizens back into politics and to compete for their vote. As the Democrats defeated the Populists, they amended their state constitutions or drafted new ones to include various discriminatory disfranchising devices. When the payment of the poll tax was made a prerequisite to voting, impoverished #BlackPeople and often #PoorWhitePeople, unable to afford the tax, were denied the #RightToVote.
"During the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era in the United States, the former states of the Confederacy repurposed the poll tax explicitly to prevent formerly enslaved #BlackAmericans from voting. Although the #14thAmendment and #15thAmendment [s] gave Black men full #citizenship and #VotingRights, the power to determine what constituted a qualified voter was left to the states. Beginning with Mississippi in 1890, #SouthernStates quickly exploited this legal loophole. At its 1890 constitutional convention, Mississippi imposed a $2.00 poll tax and early registration as a requirement for voting. This had catastrophic results for the Black electorate. Whereas approximately 87,000 Black citizens registered to vote in 1869, representing almost 97% of the eligible voting-age population, fewer than 9,000 of them registered to vote after the state’s new constitution took effect in 1892.
"Between 1890 and 1902, all eleven former #Confederate states imposed some form of a poll tax to deter Black Americans from voting. The tax, which ranged from $1 to $2, was prohibitively expensive for most Black sharecroppers, who earned their wages in crops, not currency. Beyond the cost, voter registration and tax payment offices were usually located in public spaces designed to intimidate potential voters, like courthouses and police stations.
"The southern states also enacted #JimCrowLaws intended to reinforce #RacialSegregation and restrict Black voting rights. Along with the poll tax, most of these states also imposed literacy tests, which required potential voters to read and interpret in writing sections of the state constitution. So-called 'grandfather clauses' allowed a person to vote without paying the poll tax or passing the literacy test if their father or grandfather had voted before the abolition of slavery in 1865; a stipulation that automatically precluded all formerly enslaved persons. Together, the grandfather clause and the literacy tests effectively restored voting rights to poorer White voters who could not pay the poll tax, while further suppressing the Black vote.
"Poll taxes of varying stipulations lingered in Southern states well into the 20th century. While some states abolished the tax in the years after World War I, others retained it. Ratified in 1964, the #24thAmendment to the #USConstitution declared the tax unconstitutional in federal elections.
"Specifically, the 24th Amendment states:
'The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.'
"President Lyndon B. Johnson called the amendment a 'triumph of liberty over restriction.' 'It is a verification of people's rights, which are rooted so deeply in the mainstream of this nation's history,' he said.
"The #VotingRightsAct of 1965 created significant changes in the voting status of Black Americans throughout the South. The law prohibited the states from using literacy tests and other methods of excluding Black Americans from voting. Before this, only an estimated twenty-three percent of voting-age Black citizens were registered nationally, but by 1969 the number had jumped to sixty-one percent.
"In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court went beyond the Twenty-fourth Amendment by ruling in the case of Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, states could not levy a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in state and local elections. In two months in the spring of 1966, federal courts declared poll tax laws unconstitutional in the last four states that still had them, starting with Texas on February 9. Similar decisions soon followed in Alabama and Virginia. Mississippi's $2.00 poll tax (about $18 today) was the last to fall, declared unconstitutional on April 8, 1966."
https://www.thoughtco.com/poll-tax-definition-and-examples-5443130
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What Is A #PollTax? Definition and Examples
By Robert Longley, July 27, 2022
Excerpt: "In the United States, the origin of the poll tax—and the controversy surrounding it—is associated with the agrarian unrest of the 1880s and 1890s, which culminated in the rise of the Populist Party in the Western and the Southern states. The Populists, representing low-income farmers, gave Democrats in these areas the only serious competition that they had experienced since the end of Reconstruction. The competition led both parties to see the need to attract Black citizens back into politics and to compete for their vote. As the Democrats defeated the Populists, they amended their state constitutions or drafted new ones to include various discriminatory disfranchising devices. When the payment of the poll tax was made a prerequisite to voting, impoverished #BlackPeople and often #PoorWhitePeople, unable to afford the tax, were denied the #RightToVote.
"During the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era in the United States, the former states of the Confederacy repurposed the poll tax explicitly to prevent formerly enslaved #BlackAmericans from voting. Although the #14thAmendment and #15thAmendment [s] gave Black men full #citizenship and #VotingRights, the power to determine what constituted a qualified voter was left to the states. Beginning with Mississippi in 1890, #SouthernStates quickly exploited this legal loophole. At its 1890 constitutional convention, Mississippi imposed a $2.00 poll tax and early registration as a requirement for voting. This had catastrophic results for the Black electorate. Whereas approximately 87,000 Black citizens registered to vote in 1869, representing almost 97% of the eligible voting-age population, fewer than 9,000 of them registered to vote after the state’s new constitution took effect in 1892.
"Between 1890 and 1902, all eleven former #Confederate states imposed some form of a poll tax to deter Black Americans from voting. The tax, which ranged from $1 to $2, was prohibitively expensive for most Black sharecroppers, who earned their wages in crops, not currency. Beyond the cost, voter registration and tax payment offices were usually located in public spaces designed to intimidate potential voters, like courthouses and police stations.
"The southern states also enacted #JimCrowLaws intended to reinforce #RacialSegregation and restrict Black voting rights. Along with the poll tax, most of these states also imposed literacy tests, which required potential voters to read and interpret in writing sections of the state constitution. So-called 'grandfather clauses' allowed a person to vote without paying the poll tax or passing the literacy test if their father or grandfather had voted before the abolition of slavery in 1865; a stipulation that automatically precluded all formerly enslaved persons. Together, the grandfather clause and the literacy tests effectively restored voting rights to poorer White voters who could not pay the poll tax, while further suppressing the Black vote.
"Poll taxes of varying stipulations lingered in Southern states well into the 20th century. While some states abolished the tax in the years after World War I, others retained it. Ratified in 1964, the #24thAmendment to the #USConstitution declared the tax unconstitutional in federal elections.
"Specifically, the 24th Amendment states:
'The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.'
"President Lyndon B. Johnson called the amendment a 'triumph of liberty over restriction.' 'It is a verification of people's rights, which are rooted so deeply in the mainstream of this nation's history,' he said.
"The #VotingRightsAct of 1965 created significant changes in the voting status of Black Americans throughout the South. The law prohibited the states from using literacy tests and other methods of excluding Black Americans from voting. Before this, only an estimated twenty-three percent of voting-age Black citizens were registered nationally, but by 1969 the number had jumped to sixty-one percent.
"In 1966 the U.S. Supreme Court went beyond the Twenty-fourth Amendment by ruling in the case of Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that under the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, states could not levy a poll tax as a prerequisite for voting in state and local elections. In two months in the spring of 1966, federal courts declared poll tax laws unconstitutional in the last four states that still had them, starting with Texas on February 9. Similar decisions soon followed in Alabama and Virginia. Mississippi's $2.00 poll tax (about $18 today) was the last to fall, declared unconstitutional on April 8, 1966."
https://www.thoughtco.com/poll-tax-definition-and-examples-5443130
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