{"value"=>"<p>This scrapbook (1940-1953) is about the poll tax, a tax levied for the privilege of citizenship, including voter registration, and contains clippings from a variety of both African American and mainstream newspapers. Coverage includes several attempts to outlaw poll tax at both the federal and state level, including the Pepper Geyer bill, which would have barred the poll tax for federal elections only. The clippings also cover filibustering, Anti Poll Tax Week in 1941, opinion pieces primarily against poll tax, and explanations of how poll taxes work and disenfranchise voters, particularly African Americans.</p>"}