Georgia Man Challenges Poll Tax, 1937

... and your registration clerk of said registration book refused to administer the voters’ oath to me with said poll tax provision stricken and without a poll tax receipt and denied me the privilege of registering.

Georgia Man Challenges Poll Tax 1937

In Breedlove v. Suttles, Nolan Breedlove unsuccessfully challenged the constitutionality of the poll tax. The Breedlove decision set back the fight to dismantle discriminatory voting practices.

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