Existing comment:
End of the Poll Tax
On January 23, 1964, the Twenty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution ended the Poll Tax. The amendment prohibits the states or federal government from requiring voters to pay a poll tax before they are able to vote in a national election. The use of the poll tax was revived following the end of Reconstruction as a mechanism to restrict access to voting for underprivileged people in general and African Americans in particular. |