The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax.
On this date in 1962, the House passed the 24th Amendment, outlawing the poll tax as a voting requirement in federal elections, by a vote of 295 to 86. At the time, five states maintained poll taxes which disproportionately affected African-American voters: Virginia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas.
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German goldsmith, inventor, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe with the printing press.
1. Made the first american flag 2. Claimed to have tailored for George Washington and 3. she had convinced George Washington to change the shape of the stars from six-pointed to five-pointed. <span> Hoped this helped!</span>
In May of 1856, an antislavery group killed settlers at "<span>Harpers Ferry, Virginia," since the goal was to start a wider movement that would wipe out more slave owners. </span>
