The poll tax was the last surviving instance of a property qualification for the suffrage, and it was in effect, at the time of the adoption of this amendment, in only five States. The amendment ...

Volta School in Merced County, 1914. Volta precinct voted down Proposition 10, “Abolition of Poll Tax,” with a margin of 56 to 26. The poll tax was used to fund public schools like this one.

This situation remained largely unchallenged for almost a century, until the 1960s, when the years of protest by the civil rights movement bore fruit in the abolition of poll taxes and federal ...

violating the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment and the abolition of poll taxes in the 24th Amendment. In 1962, Sen. Spessard Holland of Florida attached anti-poll tax language to a ...

In 1989 the Conservative government realised their long-held objective of introducing a flat-rate poll tax in Britain. The abolition of the rating system had appeared as part of the party's manifesto ...

The timing could hardly have been worse for Mr Major just as he was preparing to announce the abolition of the poll tax - or community charge as it was officially known. The protests which erupted ...