Atlanta voting rights advocate Loretta Green, 89, voted for the first time at the age of 25 and can still remember the ...
For example, last year, a Pew Research Center poll found that more than a third (34%) of Americans said they pay about the right amount in taxes. In that same poll, about 8% said they pay less ...
Johnetta Williams was so delighted to vote in the 1960 presidential election that the $1.75 poll tax didn’t much bother her.
Summers, retired judge and state attorney general. The 24th Amendment abolished poll taxes and other taxes in federal ...
The 89-year-old is taking her Alabama poll tax exempt certificate from 1960 to voting rallies and telling young voters why she doesn’t miss an opportunity to cast her ballot. Green, an Air Force ...
The 24th Amendment abolished poll taxes and other taxes in federal elections. It was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964. The United States Supreme Court later expanded the reach of the ...