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.
Poll Tax A poll or head tax is one imposed equally on all adults at the time of voting and is not affected by property ownership or income. The poll tax was used in the South during and after Reconstruction as a means of circumventing the 14th Amendment and denying civil rights to blacks. This form of taxation gradually fell out of favor in the South in the mid-20th century, but it was not until the adoption of the 24th Amendment that poll taxes were made illegal as a prerequisite for voting in federal elections.