claim: the texas constitution "still contains jim crow provisions about the poll tax and restrictions on women having the right to vote."
author: charles reed
evidence_1: the texas constitution "still contains jim crow provisions about the poll tax and  restrictions on women having the right to vote." — politifact texas on saturday, ...
evidence_2: mar 21, 2011 ... flashing back to the week that was at politifact texas … ... into the texas  constitution after he wrote in a march 11 op-ed article in the austin american- statesman that the document still contains "jim crow provisions about the poll  tax and restrictions on women having the right to vote.
evidence_3: disenfranchisement after the reconstruction era in the united states of america  was based on ... the challenge to voting rights has continued into the 21st  century, as shown .... secondly, the democratic legislatures passed jim crow  laws to assert white .... the poll tax was sometimes used alone or together with a  literacy ...
evidence_4: jim crow laws were based on the theory of white supremacy and were a reaction  to reconstruction. ... able to vote, to those with “good characters,” to those who  paid poll taxes. ... by 1914, texas had six entire towns in which blacks could not  live. ... to white schools until adequate classrooms could be provided for blacks.
evidence_5: a grandfather clause (or grandfather policy) is a provision in which an old rule  continues to apply to some existing situations while a new rule will apply to all  future cases. those exempt from the new rule are said to have grandfather rights  or acquired rights, or to have been grandfathered in. ... examples included  imposition of poll taxes and residency and literacy tests.