Amendment+XXIV

__//**Amendment XXIV Prohibition of the Poll Tax**//__
The Twenty-Fourth Amendment was ratified on January 23, 1964. It was proposed on August 22, 1962. It was proposed more than a year before it was actually ratified!
 * By: Mari and Caroline**
 * The Twenty-Fourth Amendment is the Prohibition of the Poll Tax. This basically was the right for citizens in the United States to vote in any primary election to elect a new President or Vice President, or Senator or Representative in Congress, and they will not be denied by the United States or any state at all, because of the inability to pay poll tax or other taxes. The Supreme Court held the Poll Tax to be a ''denial of the equal protection", clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was passed many years before, and the unconstitutional in the Harper vs. Virginia State Board of the elections in 1966.**

Most of the states in the United States ratified the Twenty-Fourth Amendment. There were forty-two states that did ratify it, they were Alaska, Alabama, California, Colarado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennslyvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

There were only nine states that did not ratify the Twenty-Fouth Amendment, and they were Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Wyoming.

The Congress really wanted to abolish the Poll Tax. They supported this amendment a lot. Also, John F. Kennedy, before he died wanted the Poll Tax to end. John's brother Robert F. Kennedy also wanted the Pol Tax to end.

There were a lot of things happening in our nation in the time period of 1964. In January, President Lyndon B. Johnson, declared a "war on povery". In February Congress passed the Civil Rights Act. Congress also passed the Economic Oppurtunity Act, initiating the "war on poverty". In July, President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, making segregation in public places, such as bathrooms, restaraunts, and buses, and discrimination in employment illegal. In 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize.

There were a lot of things happening in the world, in the year 1964, and one event was on April 3, 1964 the US and Panama agreed to resume diplomatic relations. On October 10, 1964, the 18th modern Olympic games opened in Tokyo, Japan.

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