Poll Tax
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...abolished, and in 1964 the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution disallowed the poll tax as a...for voting in federal elections. In 1966 this prohibition was extended to all elections by the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that such a tax...