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Poll Tax

The Power of the Ballot: One-Person, One-Vote, en Masse

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 12.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Disenfranchisement, Civil Rights Act, African American Voters, Voting Rights Act, Lyndon B. Johnson, Fifteenth Amendment, United States Constitution, Enfranchisement, Barack Obama, Poll Tax, Redemption, Gerrymander, Voting, Politics News
Arlene M. Roberts

The importance of the black vote in last Tuesday's election can only be fully appreciated when considered against the historical backdrop of black enfranchisement.

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Slow Voting Process in St. Louis

Jeanine Molloff | Posted 12.05.2008 | Home

Read More: African American Voters, Obama Missouri, Mccain Missouri, The Rachel Maddow Show, Black Voters, Election Day, Missouri Results, Minority Voters, Poll Worker, Paper Ballots, Rachel Maddow, Sarah Palin, Missouri, On the Ground 2008, Election 2008, Poll Tax, Sarah Palin Missouri, Long Lines at the Polls, Home News
Jeanine Molloff

Long wait times to vote represent a covert 'poll tax.' Many people in low-income neighborhoods in Missouri are hourly wage earners who cannot afford to lose a day's wages.

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Fifty Years later, the Oldest Survivor of Death Row USA Casts Ballot for Obama

Joan Cheever | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Moreese Bickham, Ex Felons Voting Rights, Csi, Voting Rights, U.S. Constitution, Obama Presidency, First African American President, African American President, Democratic Primary, Death Row, Mississippi, 24th Amendment, On the Ground 2008, Poll Tax, Louisiana Death Row, Home News
Joan Cheever

Moreese Bickham spent 13, 695 days behind bars; 37 years and six months in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. He stayed 14 years and 10 months on Loui...

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