Promote healthy sexual behaviors, strengthen community capacity, and increase access to quality services to prevent sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and their complications. STDs refer to more than 25 infectious organisms that are transmitted primarily through sexual activity.
The Supreme Court declared the poll tax unconstitutional. In the meantime, the 1964 ratification of the Twenty-fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed imposition of a poll tax as a requirement for voting in federal elections, and the federal. poll tax is a tax levied as a prerequisite for voting. After. (1865â1877)âthe twelve-year period of rebuilding that followed the American Civil War (1861â1865)âmany southern states passed poll taxes in an effort to keep African Americans from voting.
The Voting Rights Act had not included a provision prohibiting poll taxes, but had directed the Attorney General to challenge its use. In Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections, 383 U.S. 663 (1966), the Supreme Court held Virginia's poll tax to be unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment.