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    The women's poll tax repeal movement was a movement in the United States, predominantly led by women, that attempted to secure the abolition of poll taxes...
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    (1998). "Illusion of Suffrage: Female Voting Rights and the Women's Poll Tax Repeal Movement after the Nineteenth Amendment". Notre Dame Law Review. 73...
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  • and suffragettes Lodge Bill Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States Women's poll tax repeal movement Klinghoffer, Judith Apter; Elkis, Lois (1992)...
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  • A poll tax, also known as head tax or capitation, is a tax levied as a fixed sum on every liable individual (typically every adult), without reference...
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    Marge Frantz (category American anti-poll tax activists)
    organizer, agitated for civil rights, and participated in the women's poll tax repeal movement. After working as a union organizer for the Mine, Mill and...
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    Joseph Gelders (category American anti-poll tax activists)
    targeted poll taxes in the United States. Gelders and civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr were prominent figures in the women's poll tax repeal movement...
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    poll taxes. As married women's wages and legal access to money were controlled by their husbands, many married women had no ability to pay poll taxes. In...
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  • presidential straw poll for their choice in the U.S. Presidential general election, but since Guam has no votes in the Electoral College, the poll has no real...
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    Lois Van Valkenburgh (category American anti-poll tax activists)
    Virginia's first voter's guide in the 1940s and worked in the women's poll tax repeal movement. She also pressed for school desegregation in the Washington...
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  • Ceola Wallace (category American anti-poll tax activists)
    the African-American women who filed lawsuits in the women's poll tax repeal movement to eliminate the requirement to pay taxes before one could vote...
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    Frances Wheeler Sayler (category American anti-poll tax activists)
    the women's poll tax repeal movement and in the early 1940s, served as an executive secretary of the National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax. Using...
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    suffragists and suffragettes Lodge Bill Timeline of women's suffrage Women's poll tax repeal movement For state elections: Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections...
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    Louise O. Charlton (category American anti-poll tax activists)
    in Birmingham, Alabama for over four decades. Active in the women's poll tax repeal movement, she was involved in civil rights activism and conservation...
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    Dorothy Stafford (activist) (category American anti-poll tax activists)
    active in the women's poll tax repeal movement, which eventually helped secure a constitutional amendment abolishing collecting poll tax as a precursor...
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    suffrage in the United States Women's poll tax repeal movement Taylor, Paula Kyzer (20 August 2020). "Women's Suffrage Movement". Encyclopedia of Arkansas...
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  • started taxing the local people. Samin gathered many followers but at the time, the Dutch did not see any threat to come from this movement. In 1903...
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    amendments have been targeted by some in the movement for full or partial repeal: the 16th that allows an income tax, and the 17th that requires popular election...
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    because it was designed to lower the price of tea without officially repealing the tea tax of the Revenue Act of 1767. And colonial leaders thought the British...
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  • (1998). "Illusion of Suffrage: Female Voting Rights and the Women's Poll Tax Repeal Movement after the Nineteenth Amendment". Notre Dame Law Review. 73...
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    Georgism (redirect from Single-tax movement)
    called in modern times Geoism, and known historically as the single tax movement, is an economic ideology holding that people should own the value that...
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    Minnie Steckel (category American anti-poll tax activists)
    psychologist, clubwoman, and an activist involved in the women's poll tax repeal movement. Steckel began her career as a school teacher and worked her...
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  • Aline Davis Hays (category American anti-poll tax activists)
    leadership of the League of Women Shoppers, her activities in peace and labor causes and the women's poll tax repeal movement, and her support for friends...
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  • collected taxes on imports ("tariffs"), whiskey, and (for a while) on glass windows. States and localities collected poll taxes on voters and property taxes on...
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  • The Anti-Bin Tax Campaign opposed the introduction of bin charges (garbage-collection fees) by local authorities in Ireland. The campaign centred largely...
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    1937, such use of the poll tax was nearly ignored by the federal government. Several state-level initiatives repealed poll taxes during this period for...
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    Florence Lewis (activist) (category American anti-poll tax activists)
    active in the women's poll tax repeal movement and encouraged school integration through her membership in the National Council of Jewish Women. She served...
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  • preceding the election, and who have paid or are charged with a State or county tax, shall enjoy the right of an elector" 1851: end of non-citizen voting rights...
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    Texas suffragists Women's suffrage in Texas Women's poll tax repeal movement Women's suffrage in states of the United States Women's suffrage in the United...
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    bill would have repealed the individual mandate and the employer mandate, dramatically cut Medicaid spending and eligibility, eliminated tax credits for healthcare...
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  • List of Arkansas suffragists (category American women's rights activists)
    suffrage in the United States Women's poll tax repeal movement Taylor, Paula Kyzer (20 August 2020). "Women's Suffrage Movement". Encyclopedia of Arkansas...
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