24th Amendment
The 24th Amendment was ratified on January 23, 1964. The amendment states that no state can have a poll tax on federal elections. Poll taxes were popular in the South as a way to not allow African Americans to vote. In the South it was difficult for African Americans to find jobs and to have to pay to vote was not worth it to many of them. They would rather pay to keep food on the table for them and their kids. Now that poll taxes were illegal, there was nothing stopping any African American from voting.