They also had varying levels of difficulty exercising that right before the 24th Amendment prohibited poll taxes, which were deemed to be discriminatory. A compliment to the Civil Rights Act as part ...

Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The 24th Amendment abolished poll taxes and other taxes in federal elections. It was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964. The United ...

The lawmakers acted by approving a proposed 24th Amendment to the Constitution. At the time, five states — Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas — maintained poll taxes which ...