Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections

Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections
the Supreme Court of the United States

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Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, 383 U.S. 663 (1966), was a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court found that Virginia's poll tax was unconstitutional under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibited poll taxes in federal elections; the Supreme Court extended this prohibition to state elections. Warning: template has been deprecated.

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Opinion of the Court

United States Supreme Court

Annie E. HARPER et al., Appellants, v. VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS et al. Evelyn BUTTS, Appellant,

Argued: Jan. 25 and 26, 1966. --- Decided: March 24, 1966

Allison W. Brown, Jr., Washington, D.C., Robert L. Segar, Flint, Mich., and J. A. Jordan, Jr., Norfolk, Va., for appellants.

George D. Gibson, Richmond, Va., for appellees.

Sol. Gen. Thurgood Marshall, for the United States, as amicus curiae, by special leave of Court.

Mr. Justice DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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