Poll Tax Receipt for Lee Carr

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Vanguard: Black Women and the Right to Vote		This teaching module discusses how Black women fought against both racism and sexism during their fight for women's suffrage, featuring a webinar with Martha S. Jones, author of the 2020 book, Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All.

Title: Poll Tax Receipt for Lee Carr
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
Legal Concept: Civil Rights; Voting Rights; Race
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
Spatial Coverage: Texas; South
Document Type: Image
Document Category: Primary Source
Archival Source: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Carr Family
URL: https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2012.104

Title: Poll Tax Receipt for Lee Carr
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
Legal Concept: Civil Rights; Voting Rights; Race
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
Spatial Coverage: Texas; South
Document Type: Image
Document Category: Primary Source
Archival Source: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Carr Family
URL: https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2012.104

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