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GOODBYE, POLL TAX: 24TH AMENDMENT RATIFIED

More than 20 years after Atlanta textile worker聽聽lamented his inability to vote to a WPA interviewer, collection of poll taxes in national elections was prohibited by the聽Jan. 23, 1964, ratification of the 24th Amendment to the聽. Passage of the amendment affected voting in Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, and Virginia.

鈥淒o you know I鈥檝e never voted in my life, never been able to exercise my right as a citizen because of the poll tax?鈥� 鈥� . Homer L. Pike, interviewer; Atlanta, Georgia.聽. Manuscript Division





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