It eliminated those unfair and discriminatory post-Reconstruction poll taxes. Some did not feel that the amendment went far enough, since it applied to federal elections, and not state elections.

At the end of the Reconstruction era, however, a fifth state constitution was adopted in 1874, one that did not forbid the poll tax. Collection of the poll tax proved difficult, and payment was at ...

It eliminated those unfair and discriminatory post-Reconstruction poll taxes. Some did not feel that the amendment went far enough, since it applied to federal elections, and not state elections.

Passed in Virginia in 1876, the poll tax ended in 1882 but was revived in the 1902 Virginia Constitution with the requirement, beginning in 1904, that any person who wanted to register to vote pay ...

More than 20 years after Atlanta textile worker “Mr. Trout” lamented his inability to vote to a WPA interviewer, collection of poll taxes in national elections was prohibited by the Jan. 23 ...