November 8, 1966
Texas finally votes to abolish the $2 poll tax for state and local elections. The 24th Amendment, ratified in 1964, abolished the use of the poll tax as a pre-condition for voting in federal elections, but made no mention of state elections. In the 1966 case of Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, the US Supreme Court overruled its 1937 decision in Breedlove v. Suttles, and extended the prohibition of poll taxes to state elections, declaring that it violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
