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.

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 ...

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 ...

"We call those poll taxes," Holder added spontaneously ... a reference to a fee used in some Southern states after slavery's abolition to disenfranchise black people. The Texas legislature ...