The 89-year-old is taking her Alabama poll tax exempt certificate from 1960 to voting rallies and telling young voters why she doesn’t miss an opportunity to cast her ballot. Green, an Air Force ...
Alabama (WVTM) — Loretta Green is a walking history lesson, and she’s gone viral because of it. The 89-year-old is taking her Alabama poll tax exempt certificate from 1960 to voting rallies ...
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed the use of racist literacy tests and poll taxes to ban Black voters. It came too late ...
Unofficial poll results on Tuesday suggest Ballot Measure 2A, which calls for a 1-cent increase to the existing half-cent sales tax in Glenwood Springs, is a toss-up for Garfield County residents. As ...
In the final weeks before the Nov. 5 election, a measure that would double the county’s quarter-percent homeless sales tax was closing in on the majority it needs to pass, a new poll of likely ...
Johnetta Williams was so delighted to vote in the 1960 presidential election that the $1.75 poll tax didn’t much bother her. She never forgot it, though. She was 18, and it was the first time sh ...
The poll commissioned by Oxfam on the eve of the summit shows massive support for hiking taxes on luxury forms of transport - with 81% in favour. But just 27% would back more tax on fuel for motor ...
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led Centre, saying its tax structure is designed to "loot the poor." "Indian tax structure is to loot the poor.
Hiking national insurance will become Labour's 'poll tax', Rachel Reeves has been warned. In the most vehement criticism yet, business leaders reacted with fury as Treasury officials refused to ...