What a Colored Man
Should Do To Vote
[Cover]
To the Colored Men
of Voting Age
in the Southern States
[Decoration]
A
AS citizens of the United States, you cannot value toohighly your right to vote, which is an expression ofyour choice of the officers who shall be placed in control ofyour nearest and dearest interests.
You should vote at every election. In National andcongressional elections, vote for the best interests of thecountry. In local elections, vote for the best interests of thecommunity in which you live.
NEVER SELL YOUR VOTE.
The Things that Qualify
a Colored Man to Vote
in the Southern States
I
IN order that you may know what will be demanded of youto vote under the Constitutions and laws of the severalSouthern States, we give below the substantial requirementsof each, to wit:—
IN Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, SouthCarolina, Virginia and Tennessee
YOU MUST PAY YOUR POLL TAX.
YOU MUST REGISTER AND HOLD YOUR CERTIFICATEOF REGISTRATION.
If you can read and write you can register.
IN Alabama, Louisiana and South Carolina
If you cannot read and write you can register if you own $300worth of property.
IN Arkansas and Georgia
YOU MUST PAY YOUR POLL TAX.
IN Florida, Kentucky, Texas and West Virginia
You must reside in the State.
A man convicted of almost any crime may be barred from voting.
Alabama
Must reside in the State two years, one year in the County andthree months in the election precinct.
Poll taxes for 1901 and each year since then must be paid beforethe first of February prior to the election.
Persons over forty-five years of age are exempt from poll tax.
Must be registered and hold a certificate of registration.
In order to register, must be able to read and write any Articleof the Constitution of the United States, and must be regularly engagedin some work, employment, business, trade or calling, thegreater part of the year before election, unless physically unable towork.
A person who cannot read and write, must own, or his wifemust own forty acres of land upon which he must live, or must ownreal and personal property assessed at three hundred dollars, orhis wife must own the same, upon which the taxes for the yearbefore election must be paid.
Any person convicted of felony, adultery, larceny, wife-beating,miscegenation, vagrancy, selling or offering to sell his vote, isforever barred from voting.
Arkansas
Must reside one year in the State, six months in the                         
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