Jim Crow-era black taxpayers paid equal taxes but received unequal benefits

Evidence

In the sixty years between Plessy v. Ferguson, which approved the doctrine of “separate but equal,” and the end of the Jim Crow era, Sherrod noted, black taxpayers had been making the same payments as white taxpayers without receiving the same benefits. This added up to $43,209 in rebates due. — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth, 508

Categorization

• SEED: The Essence column advising readers to enter $43,209 on line 59 as ‘Black taxes’ is a remarkable act of protest-through-tax-form and a potential article/essay angle on DIY tax resistance.