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Harrison, Governor of Virginia and argued under the name Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections. [2] In the initial case lawyers for Harper and Butts argued against the constitutionality of the poll tax, but on November 12 the courts dismissed the case, citing 1930s precedents established by the United States Supreme Court. [3]
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Butts' case against the poll tax was appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States and was bundled with another case, Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections in 1966. [11] When the case went before the Supreme Court, Jordan argued that the poll tax laws had successfully barred black people not only from voting, but from holding office ...
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Evelyn Thomas Butts (May 22, 1924 - March 11, 1993) was an African American civil rights activist and politician in Virginia.She is best known for challenging the poll tax and took her case before the United States Supreme Court.
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Also, in 1964, Annie E. Harper, who was joined by Gladys Berry and Curtis and Myrtle Burr, brought suit against the Virginia Board of Elections arguing that the poll tax denied them equal protection because they were poor. [239] Evelyn Thomas Butts filed a separate complaint, which was combined with the Harper litigants as a companion suit.
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