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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Poll taxes."”.
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Violence and Social Unrest: Implications of the Reconstruction Amendments for African Americans in the Post Civil War South, 1863-1877
… oppression inflicted through literacy tests and poll taxes ushered in a new era of American slavery by 1877. Between 1865 and 1877, African Americans who had fought for freedom from chattel slavery and had won emancipation were being targeted because of the laws guaranteed by the Constitution. …
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Cup of salvation : race, religion, and anti-prohibition in Texas, 1885-1935.
The movement for the legal prohibition of alcohol, or simply "prohibition," has attracted scholarly attention for its wide-ranging impact on culture and politics. Prohibitionist "drys" overcame anti-prohibitionists "wets" to ratify the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment …