24th+Amendment

__The 24th Amendment__

The 24th amendment was adopted in 1964 during the Johnson Administration and was ratified on January 23, 1964. [|1] The amendment was added to ban the poll tax as a condition for voting in federal elections. The poll taxes were a fee that had to be paid by registered voters. The judicial branch decided it was illegal due to the fact that poorer people and some minority groups, such as blacks, could not afford it, thus, disabling them from their right to vote. [|2]

**Protests of the Poll Tax.**

During that time period, five states sustained poll taxes which unreasonably affected minority, especially black, voters. The states included Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas. The poll tax illustrated certain Jim Crow laws which aimed to disallow black voters and enforced segregation. Opponents of the amendment thought the legislation did not protect blacks’ rights well enough in state and local elections. [|3]


 * After the ratification of the 14th Amendment **