Sujet

Poll tax receipt for Lee Carr from Hardin County, Texas, 1955. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

During the era of segregation in the United States, voting rights were denied to African Americans in the form of discriminatory taxation. Having to pay $1.50 - the equivalent of a day's wages - made voting beyond the reach of the poor. The receipt is on white paper with black and red ink and has set fields including Age, State, Citizen, Sex, and Race. The information is filled out by hand. The receipt, issued in 1955, provides that the voter has paid the $1.50 poll tax in Hardin County, Texas. The receipt was produced by Maverick Clarke printers. In 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Harper v. Virginia Board of Electors, that poll taxes for any level of election were unconstitutional.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21A77_492

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

59,5Mo (3,0Mo) / 53,2cm x 28,0cm / 6284 x 3311 (300dpi)

Mots clés

people black politics country finance museum color Constitution political location century receipt discrimination tax concept African American African-American afro-american voting fifties 1950s elections United States of America taxation Colour rights 20th century heritage American America USA decade segregation suffrage united states poll tax election civil rights unconstitutional constitutional racial segregation Unknown Carr Lee Leo cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art National Museum of African American History and Culture NMAAHC receipts lithographic ink on paper (fiber product) Lee Carr Leo Carr