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Harrison, Governor of Virginia and argued under the name Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections. [2] In the initial case lawyers for Harper and Butts argued against the constitutionality of the poll tax, but on November 12 the courts dismissed the case, citing 1930s precedents established by the United States Supreme Court. [3]
In 1982, she was appointed by the governor to the State Board of Housing and Community Development. [4] Butts ran for city council in Norfolk three times in 1980, 1982 and in 1984, but was never successful. [2] [13] [4] Also in 1984, Butts was a witness in a court trial where she supported an at-large election system in Norfolk. [14]
Virginia Board of Elections (1966), which ruled poll taxes unconstitutional even for state elections. Federal district courts in Alabama and Texas, respectively, struck down these states' poll taxes less than two months before the Harper ruling was issued. The state of Virginia accommodated the amendment by providing an "escape clause" to the ...
In the 1966 case of Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections, the Supreme Court reversed its decision in Breedlove v. Suttles to also include the imposition of poll taxes in state elections as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution.
In Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections (1966) the U.S. Supreme Court found that Virginia's poll tax was unconstitutional under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The 24th Amendment (1964) prohibited poll taxes in federal elections. However, five states continued to impose a poll tax for voters in state elections.
Also, in 1964, Annie E. Harper, who was joined by Gladys Berry and Curtis and Myrtle Burr, brought suit against the Virginia Board of Elections arguing that the poll tax denied them equal protection because they were poor. [239] Evelyn Thomas Butts filed a separate complaint, which was combined with the Harper litigants as a companion suit.
Harper coached the Wolfpack from 2009 to 2013, and she was an assistant on NC State coach Wes Moore's staff at Chattanooga from 2001 to 2004. Harper's husband and assistant coach, Jon, was an ...
[10] [5] In May 1964, Jordan and Butts filed another suit which accused the state of violating four amendments of the Constitution with the poll tax. [5] Butts' case against the poll tax was appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States and was bundled with another case, Harper v. Virginia State Board of Elections in 1966. [11]