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.
Share. By Martin Kelly. The 24th Amendment to the US Constitution was passed by Congress on January 23, 1964 to make poll taxes illegal for federal elections. Poll taxes are taxes that some states began charging during Reconstruction as a way to African Americans from voting.