Poll taxes in the United States: Difference between revisions

| Alabama || $1.50 {{USDCY|1.50|1901}}|| 1901<ref name="Williams 1952">{{cite journal | last1=Williams | first1=Frank B. Jr. |title=The Poll Tax as a Suffrage Requirement in the South, 1870-1901 |journal=[[The Journal of Southern History]] |date=November 1952 |volume=18 |issue=4 |pages=469–496 |doi=10.2307/2955220 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2955220 |access-date=28 October 2020 |publisher=[[Southern Historical Association]] |location=Athens, Georgia |jstor=2955220 |issn=0022-4642}}</ref>{{Rp|471}}|| 1966<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Federal Judges Strike State's Poll Tax |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62809444/the-anniston-star/ |access-date=8 November 2020 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=8 April 1966 |newspaper=[[The Anniston Star]] |location=Anniston, Alabama |page=1 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>

| Arkansas || $1.00 {{USDCY|1|1891}}|| 1891<ref name="Williams 1952" />{{Rp|471}}{{#tag:ref|Legislation was passed by the House of the Assembly in 1891 and confirmed by voter referendum in 1892.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Branam |first1=Chris M. |title=Another Look at Disfranchisement in Arkansas, 1888—1894 |journal=[[The Arkansas Historical Quarterly]] |date=Autumn 2010 |volume=69 |issue=3 |pages=245–262 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23046114 |access-date=15 December 2020 |publisher=[[Arkansas Historical Association]] |location=Fayetteville, Arkansas |jstor=23046114 |issn=0004-1823}}</ref>{{Rp|246}}|group="Notes"}} || 1964<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lackey |first1=John |title=The Poll Tax: Its Impact on Racial Suffrage |journal=[[Kentucky Law Journal]] |date=1965 |volume=54 |issue=2 |pages=423–432 |url=https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2956&context=klj |access-date=31 October 2020 |publisher=[[University of Kentucky College of Law]] |location=Lexington, Kentucky |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200321085319/https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2956&context=klj |archive-date=21 March 2020 |issn=0023-026X}}</ref>

| California || $2.00 {{USDCY|2|1850}} || 1850<ref>{{Cite web |last=Room |first=Anne T. Kent California |date=2021-06-18 |title=History of the California Poll Tax |url=https://medium.com/anne-t-kent-california-room-community-newsletter/the-california-poll-tax-9f89053e2aca |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=Anne T. Kent California Room Newsletter |language=en}}</ref>|| 1914

| Florida || $1.00<ref>{{cite web |title=Poll Tax Receipts |url=https://www.jaxpubliclibrary.org/poll-tax-receipts |website=Jacksonville Public Library |access-date=24 January 2020}}</ref> {{USDCY|1|1885}} || 1885<ref name="Williams 1952" />{{Rp|471}}{{#tag:ref|Though poll tax legislation was approved in 1885, charging the tax as a condition of voting did not occur until 1889.<ref name="Williams 1952" />{{Rp|471}}|group="Notes"}} || 1937<ref>{{cite news |title=Dade Men Hail Teachers' Aid, Poll Tax Death |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/300904695/ |access-date=24 January 2020 |agency=Miami Daily News |publisher=Daily News Bureau |date=6 June 1937}}</ref>

| Georgia || $1.00 {{USDCY|1|1877}} || 1877<ref name="Ogden 1958" >{{cite book |last=Ogden |first=Frederic D. |title=The Poll Tax in the South |url=https://archive.org/details/polltaxinsouth00ogde/page/4/mode/1up |year=1958 |publisher=[[University of Alabama Press]] |location=Birmingham, Alabama |oclc=918357443 |page=4}}</ref>{{#tag:ref|While the Constitution of 1877 allowed collection of poll taxes to fund schools,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gigantino |first1=Jim |title=Constitutional Convention of 1877 |url=https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/constitutional-convention-1877 |website=georgiaencyclopedia.org |publisher=Georgia Humanities |access-date=15 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112223805/https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/constitutional-convention-1877 |archive-date=12 November 2020 |location=Atlanta, Georgia |date=20 August 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> the requirement to pay as a prerequisite to voting was not authorized until 1908.<ref name="Ogden 1958" />|group="Notes"}} || 1945<ref name=jstor3069935 />

| Louisiana || $1.00<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-04-08 |title=State Constitution of Louisiana, 1898, Suffrage and Elections |url=https://glc.yale.edu/state-constitution-louisiana-1898-suffrage-and-elections |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition |language=en}}</ref> {{USDCY|1|1898}} || 1898<ref name="Williams 1952" />{{Rp|471}} || 1934<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Podolefsky |first1=Ronnie L. |title=Illusion of Suffrage: Female Voting Rights and the Women's Poll Tax Repeal Movement after the Nineteenth Amendment |journal=[[Notre Dame Law Review]] |date=1998 |volume=73 |issue=3 |url=https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1776&context=ndlr |access-date=28 October 2020 |publisher=[[University of Notre Dame]] |location=Notre Dame, Indiana |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003185904/https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1776&context=ndlr |archive-date=3 October 2020 |issn=0745-3515}}</ref>

| Maine || $3.00 {{USDCY|3|1845}}|| 1845 || 1973<ref>{{cite journal |year=1973 |title=Maine Senate Votes Repeal of Poll Tax on Adult Males |journal=[[New York Times]] |issue=March 13 |pages=35 }}</ref>

| Massachusetts || $3.00<ref>{{cite web |title=Poll Tax Receipts |url=https://www.daileyint.com/mytimes/lkback3.htm |website=My Times with the Sisters |access-date=10 March 2020}}</ref> {{USDCY|3|1865}} || 1865<ref name="Williams 1952" />{{Rp|470}} || 1890<ref name="Williams 1952" />{{Rp|470}}

| Minnesota || $1.00 {{USDCY|1|1863}} || 1863 || ?

| Mississippi || $2.00 {{USDCY|2|1890}} || 1890<ref name="Williams 1952" />{{Rp|471}} || 1966<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Rule State Poll Tax Is Unconstitutional |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62636893/hattiesburg-american/ |access-date=5 November 2020 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=8 April 1966 |newspaper=[[Hattiesburg American|The Hattiesburg American]] |location=Hattiesburg, Mississippi |page=1 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>

| Oklahoma|| $2.00 {{USDCY|2|1907}} || 1907 || 1986<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Oklahoma_Repeal_Poll_Tax,_State_Question_590_(1986)|title=Oklahoma Repeal Poll Tax, State Question 590 (1986)}}</ref>

| South Carolina || $1.00 {{USDCY|1|1895}} || 1895<ref name="Williams 1952" />{{Rp|471}} || 1951<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Poll Tax Dropped as S. C. Voting Requirement |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65208417/the-index-journal/ |access-date=December 13, 2020 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=February 13, 1951 |newspaper=The Index-Journal |location=Greenwood, South Carolina |page=1 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>

| Tennessee || $1.00 {{USDCY|1|1870}} || 1870<ref name="Williams 1952" />{{Rp|471}} {{#tag:ref|The State Constitution established a poll tax in 1870, but it remained unimplemented until 1890 when the legislature activated it.<ref name="Williams 1952" />{{Rp|471}}<ref>{{cite web |last1=Lester |first1=Connie L. |title=Disfranchising Laws |url=https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/disfranchising-laws/ |website=[[Tennessee Encyclopedia]] |publisher=[[Tennessee Historical Society]] |access-date=15 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125024813/https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/disfranchising-laws/ |archive-date=25 November 2020 |location=Nashville, Tennessee |date=2002 |url-status=live}}</ref>|group="Notes"}}|| 1953<ref name=jstor3069935 />

| Texas || $1.50- {{USDCY|1.50|1902}} to 1.75<ref name="Alexander, et al. 2015">{{cite web |last1=Alexander |first1=Seth |last2=Blentlinger |first2=Kaitlyn |last3=Hagemann |first3=Amber |last4=Bean |first4=Nathan |title=1963,1966: Campaigns to Repeal Texas Poll Taxes |url=https://southtexasrabblerousers.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/19631966-campaigns-to-repeal-texas-poll-taxes/ |website=South Texas Rabble Rousers History Project |access-date=31 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160606012957/https://southtexasrabblerousers.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/19631966-campaigns-to-repeal-texas-poll-taxes/ |archive-date=6 June 2016 |location=Corpus Christi, Texas |date=29 April 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> {{USDCY|1.75|1902}}|| 1902<ref name="Williams 1952" />{{Rp|471}} || 1966<ref name="Alexander, et al. 2015"/>

| Vermont || $1.00<ref>{{Cite book |last=Congress |first=United States |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=URJ_ZpgXDfEC&dq=%22vermont%22+%22poll+tax%22&pg=PA9917 |title=Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the ... Congress |date=1965 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |language=en}}</ref> {{USDCY|1|1778}} || 1778 || 1982

| Virginia || $1.50 || 1902<ref name="Williams 1952" />{{Rp|471}} {{USDCY|1.50|1902}} || 1966<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=High Court Kills Virginia's Poll Tax in 6-to-3 Decision (pt. 1) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62831282/the-danville-register/ |access-date=8 November 2020 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=25 March 1966 |newspaper=[[The Danville Register]] |location=Danville, Virginia |page=1 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |ref=none |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Court (pt. 2) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/62831461/the-danville-register/ |access-date=8 November 2020 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=25 March 1966 |newspaper=[[The Danville Register]] |location=Danville, Virginia |page=2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>