All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws; this brief description is known as the Fourteenth Amendment (Foner A-15). One event I saw that suited the Fourteenth Amendment was the elimination of the black vote. Between the 1890s and 1906, Southern states passed laws and/or constitutional requirements intended to disenfranchise blacks. During this period, the Fifteenth Amendment was passed so that no person would be denied the right to vote by the United States or any other state on the description of his race, color, or previous circumstances of his servitude. Since southerners did not like these laws and did not want to follow them, so they tried to find a way to end black voting. So they decided to create what is called the capitation. What is the capitation tax? You may be wondering. The poll tax is a tax that must be paid in order to vote. The reason the poll tax was created was to ensure that people had to pay to vote, which disenfranchised black citizens since this event took place after Reconstruction. This meant that black people would not be able to vote since they could not afford to vote. With the implementation of the poll tax, this was accompanied by a literacy test and a requirement that...... middle of paper ... during political elections. None of what happened would be explained above if the North and the Supreme Court did not team up and give their approval to disenfranchisement laws when these things were a total violation of the Fourteenth Amendment . The poll tax continued for a few more decades, until the Twenty-Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1964, where it subsequently declared poll taxes unconstitutional in all states. This large disparity between black and white voters in Louisiana had therefore become common in southern states in the 1900s due to the crippling poll tax. This event was a complete and utter challenge to black voters in the United States, as the Fourteenth Amendment was challenged by those who did not want to follow the rules given to them by the Supreme Court..