9h 13min, jan 23, 1964 y - 24th Amendment: There are no more poll taxes.
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Why it was added- Combated a jim crow law that effectively prevented poor people (which the majority of African-Americans were) from voting
Part of an ongoing american trend to allow everyone regardless of race, sex, age, and now wealth, to vote
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