Amendment 24

Amendment XXIV

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 not be denied or abridged by the United States or any State by reason of failure to pay poll tax or other tax.
Section 2.
The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

This amendment was important to the Civil Rights Movement because it ended the mandatory poll taxes that kept many African Americans from voting. Poll taxes effectively kept African Americans from having any political power, especially in the South. 



Several people protested against poll taxes not only African Americans.

In this election there were 2-6 hour waits to vote. According to Rachel Maddow this is a poll tax, in which our country worked too hard to get rid of. It is not cash that they have to pay, but it is time.