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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) NATIONAL NEGRO CONGRESS. The Poll Tax in the South Undermines Our Democracy in the North. Black and white pictorial poster, 22 x 17 inches, printed in three columns with numerous vignettes and statistical data; sold with flaws, as is. Washington, DC: National Negro Congress, Egleson Youth Workshop, circa 1940
an unusual and complex poster promoting the geyer anti-poll tax bill, which would have affected the eight poll-tax states, where only approximately 24% of the population could afford to vote, and whose representatives, at the time, numbered 16 in the Senate and 78 in Congress: "They make laws affecting every one of us, yet they are neither put in office nor can be voted out of office by the majority at home."
