According to a number of historians, <span>the Soviet Union attempted to obscure the Jewish aspect of the concentration camps, at least in Soviet media accounts in the wake of the liberation of concentration camps in 1944 and 1945. In the Russian press, the Germans were depicted as simple beasts, but their focus on killing Jews in the concentration camps was down played in the media if not actually outright hidden. </span>
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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