XXIV Amendment

Section 1.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote in any primary or other election for President or Vice President, for electors for President or Vice President, or for Senator or Representative in Congress, shall no be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay any poll tax or other tax.

Section 2.

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.



After the 15th amendment failed to reach its destination, the 24th amendment picked up the slack, eliminating poll taxes and tests that prevented blacks from voting.

President Lyndon B. Johnson worked with Martin Luther King Jr. to stop the blockades set up at voting polls.

Whites at voting booths had the control to issue literacy tests to black folks. The tests were sometimes as ridiculous as "recite the entire Constitution".