Poll Tax Receipt for Lee Carr (1955)
- Title
- Poll Tax Receipt for Lee Carr (1955)
- Description
- An image of a poll tax receipt from Texas. Poll taxes were a tool to prevent Black people and poor people from voting, since the poll tax was often a significant percentage of someone's weekly income.
- Date
- 1955-01-01
- Subject
- African Americans
- Temporal Coverage
- Cold War Era
- Post-War Era
- Jim Crow Era
- Long Civil Rights Movement
- Vietnam War
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- Gilded Age
- Progressive Era
- Territorial Expansion
- Document Type
- Government Record
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Archival Source
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Carr Family
- Contributor
- Emily Binder
- Title
- Poll Tax Receipt for Lee Carr (1955)
- Description
- An image of a poll tax receipt from Texas. Poll taxes were a tool to prevent Black people and poor people from voting, since the poll tax was often a significant percentage of someone's weekly income.
- Date
- 1955-01-01
- Subject
- African Americans
- Temporal Coverage
- Cold War Era
- Post-War Era
- Jim Crow Era
- Long Civil Rights Movement
- Vietnam War
- Civil War and Reconstruction
- Gilded Age
- Progressive Era
- Territorial Expansion
- Document Type
- Government Record
- Document Category
- Primary Source
- Archival Source
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Carr Family
- Contributor
- Emily Binder