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The Terrell Election Law was part of a wave of election reform legislation instituting a poll tax, secret ballot, and a closed primary system in Texas from 1902 to 1907, [1] during the Progressive Era of United States history.
History of the poll tax by state from 1868 to 1966. Southern states had adopted the poll tax as a requirement for voting as part of a series of laws in the late 19th century intended to exclude black Americans from politics so far as practicable without violating the Fifteenth Amendment. This required that voting not be limited by "race, color ...
Tax payment and wealth requirements for voting in state elections are prohibited by the Supreme Court in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections. [25] The poll tax would remain on the books, unenforceable, until 2020.
A recent survey revealed that 28 out of 35 districts in the area are considering a tax rate election, highlighting the broader issue of school funding across the state.
Texas gubernatorial elections, as well as other state office races, are held every four years on the nationwide Election Day, which is the Tuesday after the first Monday in November. They are held on years that are even-numbered, but not multiples of four, also known as a midterm , so they do not coincide with the presidential elections.
Buenker, John D. "The ratification of the federal income tax amendment." Cato Journal. 1 (1981): 183-223. Buenker, John D. The Income Tax and the Progressive Era (Routledge, 2018) excerpt. Burg, David F. A World History of Tax Rebellions: An Encyclopedia of Tax Rebels, Revolts, and Riots from Antiquity to the Present (2003) excerpt and text search
The Terrell Election Law created a poll tax that, from 1902, disenfranchised virtually all remaining African-American voters, the vast majority of Mexican Americans, and also most poor whites. [3] Voter turnout among males over twenty-one fell from over eighty percent to under thirty percent following the poll tax.
The history of book banning is long and nefarious. In 1637, “New English Canaan” by Thomas Morton became the first book banned in the American colonies because of his criticism of Puritanical ...