The 24th Amendment ... of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax. Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. The amendment’s purpose was ...

On this day in 1962, the House voted 295 to 62 to outlaw the poll tax as a requirement in federal elections. The lawmakers acted by approving a proposed 24th Amendment to the Constitution.

That same year, the House passed the 24th Amendment, outlawing the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections by a vote of 295 to 86. The Amendment did not become part of the ...

The 24th Amendment ... to pay a “tax” to vote in federal elections. It eliminated those unfair and discriminatory post-Reconstruction poll taxes. Some did not feel that the amendment went ...

[B] The 24th Amendment didn’t, however, mark the end of poll taxes in the United States. While it ended taxes as factors in federal elections, poll taxes remained in place for state and local ...

collection of poll taxes in national elections was prohibited by the Jan. 23, 1964, ratification of the 24th Amendment to the Constitution. Passage of the amendment affected voting in Alabama ...

we see the dynamic growth of black political empowerment across the South and the United States.'' Georgia had a poll tax of $1.50, but the state voluntarily ended it in 1945, 19 years before the 24th ...

Later, as a U.S. senator in 1962, he was finally successful in creating the 24th Amendment to abolish poll tax requirements in federal elections. The 24th Amendment -- also known as The Holland ...

Editor's note: This is a regular feature on issues related to the Constitution and civics education written by Paul G. Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The 24th Amendment ...