"In the United States, payment of a poll tax was a prerequisite to the registration for voting in a number of states. The tax emerged in some states of the United States in the late 19th century as part of the Jim Crow laws. After the right to vote was extended to all races by the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, a number of states enacted poll tax laws as a device for restricting voting rights. The laws often included a grandfather clause, which allowed any adult male whose father or grandfather had voted in a specific year prior to the abolition of slavery to vote without paying the tax. These laws, along with unfairly implemented literacy tests and extra-legal intimidation,[1] achieved the desired effect of disenfranchising African-American and Native American voters, as well as poor whites.
My mom and dad were poor farmer kids (young adults) and were paid $5.00 each to vote for FDR....way back when in Alabama.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. Albeit, it was directed at Blacks, it was not exclusively a tax on Blacks.
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You are right, it wasn’t a tax on blacks, it was a tax on Whites, for simply being White. While Whites would be the exclusive payers of the tax, blacks would be the recipients. Call it a White for black tax and be done with it.
Everything is black/White, White/black.